Kyiv in unique old photos of New York Public Library
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Honoré de Balzac in Ukraine: the Kingdom of Wheat, the Prairies of Fennimore Cooper,...
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) is a well-known French writer who produced an enormous number of novels and short stories depicting the French society of...
‘Poetic talent existed in my father’s Ukrainian family,’ – Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s daughter. Lithuanian-Ukrainian roots...
Lyubov Dostoevskaya is best known for the book 'Dostoyevsky as Portrayed by His Daughter', originally published in Munich in 1920. The quotes below are from the 1922...
Kyiv in Snow
Learn of the new facts about Kyiv in Medieval history of Europe in the "Gardariki, Ukraine" e-book. For example, how did the Vikings call...
John Steinbeck depicts Ukrainian women
“On the way to our hotel we noticed, as everyone does, that the
Ukrainian girls are very pretty, mostly blond, with fine womanly figures. They
have...
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...
Kateryna Yushchenko – inventor of Address Programming Language (APL) and Pointers. APL was more...
Plankalkul was the first high-level programming language to be designed for a computer. It designed for engineering purposes by Konrad Zuse between...
Rurik, ‘Founder of Rus’ Dynasty’, Never Existed: Moscow may have invented the whole story...
Muscovy-’Russia’ clings to Rurik with such ferocity as if this figure affects not only its history, but the very right to be called a...
Kyiv Rus’ gold cloisonné enamel medallions dating to 1000-1200 AD in Metropolitan Museum: J....
Title: Chain with Birds and Geometric MotifsDate: 1000–1200Geography: Made in Kyiv (probably), UkraineCulture: Kyivan Rus’Medium: Cloisonné enamel, goldDimensions: Overall: 4 9/16 x 15/16 x 3/16 in. (11.6 x 2.4 x...
Ancient Kyiv Spoke ‘Direct Ancestor’ of the Ukrainian Language, famous linguist A. Krymsky proved....
Agathangel Krymsky (1871-1942) was a polyglot who was fluent in 35 languages (some estimates put it at up to 60), including Arabic, Persian, Turkish,...
