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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...

‘Chumaks path in Mariupol’ by Arkhip Kuindzi

https://www.wikiart.org/en/arkhip-kuindzhi/moonlight-night-on-the-dnieper-1880

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...

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...

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...

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

https://www.wikiart.org/en/nikolai-ge