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‘Easter morning prayer” by Ukrainian painter Mykola Pymonenko

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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...

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...

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...

Kazimir Malevich showed the tragedy of Holodomor, himself fell victim to Stalinism

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“Malevich was the only artist who showed the tragic situation of the Ukrainian peasants during forced collectivization in the USSR” – wrote Jean-Claude Markade, French...

‘Harbingers of the Resurrection’ by Nikolai Ge

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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...

De-Russification of Ukrainian art, – DW

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New York museum has renamed an Edgar Degas painting to recognize its Ukrainian, not Russian, theme, and acknowledged formerly Russia-designated artists as Ukrainian. Barley...

‘Ukrainian landscape with chumaks in the moonlight’ by I. Aivazovsky

" Chumak (Ukrainian: чумак) is a historic and traditional wagon-based trading occupation on the territory of modern Ukraine in late Medieval and early Modern periods of history. It consisted in the delivery...