Ukraine Vyshyvanka/ Embroidery Shirt Day
In 2020, Google created a Doodle honoring the Ukrainian embroidered shirt in commemoration of International Vyshyvanka Day: "Held each year on the third Thursday of May, this...
Ukrainian Chumaks, Ox-Wagon Drivers, in Ivan Aivazovsky’s paintings
Future world-renowned outstanding marine painter Ivan Aivazovsky (Hovhannes Aivazian) (1817-1900) was born into an Armenian family in the Black Sea port of Feodosia in Crimea and was mostly based there. But Aivazovsky's...
Kyiv’s Independence Square (Maidan) as seen by John Steinbeck after WW2, 1946
“We tried to read a little of the plane, and promptly went to sleep. And when we were awakened, we were over the flat...
