“Mazeppa” by Louis Guisnet, 1874

Lord Byron’s one of the most famous poems devoted to a Ukrainian Hetman

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Mazeppa is a narrative poem written by the English romantic poet Lord Byron in 1819. It is based on a popular legend about the early...

Lagertha could be a proper symbol of Kiev Rus – Ukraine

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Katheryn Winnick - born in Etobicoke, Ontario, and is of Ukrainian descent. She spoke Ukrainian as her first language and did not begin speaking English until she was eight...

Andriy Yarmolenko brings victory for WestHam United over Sevilla

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"On 112 minutes, Andriy Yarmolenko found the game's decisive moment, netting from close range after Bono could only parry Pablo Fornals'...

Ukrainian Alexei Berest hoists Victory Banner over Reichstag on May 01, 1945

" On 30 April 1945, after long days of street combat in Berlin, the 150th Division attacked the Reichstag. On 1 May, at...

‘Harbingers of the Resurrection’ by Nikolai Ge

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Kistiakowsky, Truman, Stalin, dental drill, 10-dollar bet: The Trinity Test

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On April 11, 1945, Oppenheimer sent Groves the news that Kistiakowsky had managed to produce implosive compressions so perfectly symmetrical that...

Meeting at the Elbe: Lt. William Robertson (U.S. Army) and Lt. Alexander Silvashko (First...

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Silvashko went to the front in the Cherkassy Region of Ukraine, where he was born in the village of Kovunovka. He...

Ukrainian woman at work. As seen by John Steinbeck and Robert Capa in 1947

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"We went first to the fields where the women and the children were harvesting cucumbers. They were divided into battalions and...

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