Ukrainian Chumaks, Ox-Wagon Drivers, in Ivan Aivazovsky’s paintings

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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...

‘Easter morning prayer” by Ukrainian painter Mykola Pymonenko

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Ukrainian Kateryna Bilokur, a self-taught painter-virtuoso praised by Pablo Picasso

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In Dec. 2020, Doodle celebrated the 120th birthday of a Ukrainian painter with the following words: "Kateryna Bilokur, a self-taught virtuoso earned international renown for...

‘Chumaks path in Mariupol’ by Arkhip Kuindzi

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Chumaks, the Ox-Cart Drivers: Ukrainians named the Milky Way Galaxy after them – the...

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"We met frequent caravans of the Malo-Russians , who differ altogether from the inhabitants of the rest of Russia. Their features are those of...

Ilya Repin was born on August 5, 1844 in Ukraine. Story behind his most...

On 26 July 1878, he did his first pencil drawing of the merry Zaporozhians drafting their defiant letter to the sultan. Although Repin was...

Cossack Country-Ukraine as seen by Syrian chronicler Paul of Aleppo in 1654

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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...