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Khokhols: Ilya Repin’s Ukrainian Cossacks
Repin & Cossacks’ Reply World-famous painter Ilya Repin devoted 10 years to creating his painting The Reply of the Zaporizhzhian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan....
Khokhol Hairstyle: Millennium-Old Mark of Nobility of Kyiv Rus Rulers
Leo the Deacon Byzantine court historian Leo the Deacon met Kyiv ruler Sviatoslav the Brave in person in 971 AD. Leo’s description of the famous...
Older than Stonehenge and Pyramids: Megalithic Cromlech Kurgan in Ukraine
Excavations In early 2021, archaeologists began excavating a huge mound south of Dnipro in central Ukraine; it was 7.5 meters high and 50 meters in...
Homer’s Iliad & Ancient Ukraine: Achilles’ Burial of his friend Patroclus
Patroclus Burial In Chapter 23 of the Iliad, Homer describes the epic scenes of Patroclus’ burial, which Achilles organized for his friend. The funeral ritual included...
Russian Betrayal of All Its Treaties in 1939: NYTimes archival article
The Russian Betrayal 18 Sep, 1939 NY Times It is altogether probable that the Russian invasion of Poland, just at the moment when that country has been...
Scythian Pegasus: Chertomlyk Silver Vase
Chertomlyk Amphora The vase was discovered during the initial excavations of the Chertomlyk Royal Scythian Kurgan in Ukraine in 1862. The video on this channel...
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Kathryn David, a historian with the Office of the Historian, US Department of State: "There is another critical legacy of the Soviet experiment with...
Outstanding Ukrainian Planes
- Antonov An-2 recently has been included in the Guiness Book of Records as the only plane that's been in production for 70 years!! Unfortunately, some countries like North...
Ukrainian Language is older than Sanskrit, – Polish linguist M. Krasusky...
The Drevnost' Malorossiiskogo Yazyka book was published in 1880 in Odesa. It is available in the original language at Archive.org (In case the...
Bob Dylan’s Family Ties to Odessa, Ukraine
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Solomiya Krushelnytska, world-famous Ukrainian lyric-dramatic soprano of the first half of...
Solomiya Krushelnytska (1872 – 1952) was a Ukrainian lyric-dramatic soprano, considered to be one of the brightest opera stars of the first half of the...
‘Dostoyevsky hated the Mongolian strain in the Russians,’ – Fyodor’s daughter...
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...
Gold Sheath and Ceremonial Sword from Vettersfelde Treasure
Denis Topal of the National Archaeology And History Museum Of Moldova: "The ceremonial sword from Vettersfelde Treasure belongs to the earliest part of the...
The separation of powers – legislative, executive, judicial – may have...
The article was written by a judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine Viktor Shyshkin and was first published in 2007 in Ukrainian newspaper...
10th-century Rus’ Helmet from Chernihiv Black Barrow: Assyrian prototype?
“The "Gifts of the East," which appeared in large quantities in the Rus’ regions in the 7th and 8th centuries, are not limited to...
Voltaire depicted Muscovies-Russians of his time: born the slaves of masters...
Voltaire (1694-1778) was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher, satirist, and historian. One of Voltaire's best-known histories is History of Charles XII (1731). The quotes below are taken...
Mysterious Trypillia Culture in Ukraine was older than Egyptian and Sumerian...
In the 1890s, while excavating an Upper Paleolithic site in central Kyiv, Czech archaeologist Vikenty Khvoika discovered artifacts of a later civilization. The pieces of pottery...
Lenin created an ‘avatar’ of Ukraine after suppressing true Ukrainian State
Harvard History Professor Richard Pipes in his The Formation of the Soviet Union provided the timetable of how the Bolsheviks addressed 'the Ukrainian question': "The first...