‘The Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV’ by Ilya Repin

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The 2.03 m (6 foot 7 inch) by 3.58 m (11 foot 9 inch) canvas was started in 1880 and finished in 1891. Repin recorded the years of...

‘Harbingers of the Resurrection’ by Nikolai Ge

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https://www.wikiart.org/en/nikolai-ge

‘Easter morning prayer” by M. Pimonenko

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https://www.wikiart.org/en/mykola-pymonenko

John Steinbeck on Ukrainian bee farm

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" We moved on to a flowered meadow where there were hundreds of beehives, and a little tent where the beekeeper lived. The...

A mysterious Trypillya culture in Ukraine was older than the Egyptian one. It constructed...

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There was a mysterious culture in Eastern Europe between 5,500 to 2,700 BC which constructed sophisticated, organized, densely-populated settlements - only...

10th century Kiev Easter Egg discovered in Sweden

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Glazed ceramic Resurrection eggs. The egg is made of glazed fired clay. It varies in colour from bright chocolate brown to dark...

John Steinbeck depicts Ukrainian women

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“On the way to our hotel we noticed, as everyone does, that the Ukrainian girls are very pretty, mostly blond, with fine...

John Steinbeck depicts Ukrainians and their difference from Russians

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Different looks, heartiness “Everyone had told us it would be different once we got outside of Moscow, that the sternness and the...

John Steinbeck describes the ruins of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, St. Sophia and sarcophagus of Yaroslav...

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"We went from this little plaster city, so new that it has not even been built yet, to the ancient monastery...

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