Ukraine celebrates anniversary of Kyiv Rus Christianization
New perspective on Volodymir's ancestry and why he chose to be baptized in one of the most dangerous places for him, - Tauric Chersonesus...
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...
Ukrainian Church, Moscow, Constantinople
Here is a quick look at how Ukrainian Cossacks experienced reality and difference of Moscow church from the one they attended and what happened...
John Steinbeck describes the ruins of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, St. Sophia and sarcophagus of Yaroslav...
"We went from this little plaster city, so new that it has not even been built yet, to the ancient monastery on the cliff....
St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv was created in the 11th century to rival Hagia...
"Designed to rival Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, Kyiv's Saint-Sophia Cathedral symbolizes the 'new Constantinople', capital of the Christian principality of Kyiv, which was created...
Yin-Yang symbol was created in more northern area than China?
The theory that the original Yin-Yang symbol described the change of a pole’s shadow length during a year corresponds well with the meaning of...
Cossack Country-Ukraine as seen by Syrian chronicler Paul of Aleppo in 1654
Paul of Aleppo (1627 - 1669) was a Syrian archdeacon, traveler, and writer. He accompanied his father, Patriarch Makarios III of Antioch, on a journey from Aleppo...
Hryhorii Skovoroda: How Russia Tried to Appropriate ‘Ukrainian Socrates’
Hryhorii Skovoroda (1722 – 1794) was a philosopher of Ukrainian Cossack origin. He was a poet, a teacher, and a composer of liturgical music. His significant influence on his contemporaries and succeeding generations...
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...
