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Iliad, Book 13 Book 13 of the Iliad describes a crucial battle for the ships. It starts with the following lines: But once Zeus had driven...

Herodotus & Anacharsis The famous Greek historian Herodotus is the earliest author who mentioned Anacharsis. Here is what the Father of History wrote around 450...

https://youtu.be/Q2IFGWQJrrs Achilleid of Statius Achilleid is an unfinished epic poem by Publius Papinius Statius that was intended to present the life of Achilles from his youth...

https://youtu.be/GgNPqrBVy8U Side Tomb In May of 1971, archaeologists began clearing the Side Tomb of the Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan, which reached a depth of 6.2 m. It...

“There is Shakespeare for literature, Karinska for costumes!” (George Balanchine) "When George Balanchine was asked by the Ford Foundation in 1963 what was the thing...

“The Rus, who belong to the Slavic race, go from the most remote regions of the country of the Slavs, on the coasts of...

Congratulations to Sergei Loznitsa on winning the Best Director Prize (Prix de la mise-en-scène) in the selection "Un Certain Regard" (a parallel competition for films...

Read about Mykola Pymonenko and his prominent works >

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova made a propaganda statement about the transformation of Ukraine into “anti-Russia.“The man in the bunker (that Zakharova calls...

The map is surprisingly close to the borders of Kyiv Rus 1000 years ago. At that time, the area of present-day "Russia" was a...

In the famous movie The Transporter with David Statham it is put in basicly two phrases with deep meanings: "we are different people in heart and mind" (please...

Stone of Tmutarakan was discovered on the Taman Peninsula in 1792. It was the time when the famous English traveler Edward D. Clarke was passing through...

Richard Pipes (July 11, 1923 – May 17, 2018) was an American academic who specialized in Russian and Soviet history. In 1976, he headed...

Russia officially authorized robbing Ukraine of its grain. In the scanned document above, Krasnoyarsk legislators permit "expropriation of the surpluss of last year's and...

Byzantine court historian and chronicler Leo the Deacon (born c. 950) who is particularly known for his eyewitness description of Sviatoslav I of Kyiv during the latter's invasion...

This dog wears knee and elbow pads. He was dressed so just for fun. This comment was needed because certain people started pointing out...

"It was one of the ancient world's greatest battles, pitting a Carthaginian army commanded by the general Hamilcar against a Greek alliance for control...

It is situated right in the center of Kyiv, on the island amidst Dnieper river which divides Kyiv on two almost equal parts - "left bank Kyiv" and "right...