Ilya Repin: Only Ukrainian and Parisian women know how to dress with taste!
Ilya Repin was born in 1844 in the town of Chuguev in what is now Kharkiv oblast of Ukraine. Historically, the region was known...
Ukraine’s Scythian treasures Russia tries to appropriate
"At this moment, a large exhibition with an impressive title “Scythians: warriors of ancient Siberia” is being hosted by the British Museum. The event is jointly...
Odesa, the craddle of Israeli culture, enjoys a Jewish Rennaissance
The history of Odessa is also the history of Tel Aviv. Long before the State of Israel was founded, the Jewish community in...
What Ukrainian Literature Has Always Understood About Russia, – The Atlantic
Ukrainian national identity is not an accident, nor was it invented by the West. But for centuries, Ukrainians have struggled to fend off attempts...
‘Harbingers of the Resurrection’ by Nikolai Ge
https://www.wikiart.org/en/nikolai-ge
10th century Kyiv Easter Egg discovered in Sweden
"Glazed ceramic Resurrection egg. The egg is made of glazed fired clay. It varies in colour from bright chocolate brown to dark green. The...
The Telegraph: Jeff Koon accused of copying Ukrainian artist’s work
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/25/jeff-koons-accused-copying-ukrainian-artists-work/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_fb
John Steinbeck depicts Ukrainians and their difference from Russians
Different looks, heartiness “Everyone had told us it would be different once we got outside of Moscow, that the sternness and the tenseness would not...
The Swiss Secrets of Alexander Archipenko – Harvard Ukrainian Studies
"Contemporaries and scholars of Archipenko acknowledge the influence of his ideas on the development of twentieth-century sculpture. Gino Severini, who met him in Paris in...
Ludwig van Beethoven’s Variations on Ukrainian Folk Songs
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) used themes from Ukraine for two of his Ten National Airs with Variations, Op. 107 for piano with...
