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‘Scythian Square’ of Herodotus: Borders of Scythia 2500 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8T0Uowrltw When one searches for the boundaries of Scythia, one sees many different maps with boundaries stretching all the way to India and Afghanistan. While...
Scythian King with Famous Comb from Solokha Royal Kurgan in Ukraine:...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z761ftJkko One of the largest Scythian Royal kurgans, the 18 meter-high Solokha kurgan in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, on the left bank of the...
Scythian Golden Comb with Battle Scene from Solokha Royal Kurgan in...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnUhpAFYKPY A true masterpiece of Scythian metalwork, an extraordinary Gold Comb crested with fighting Scythians was discovered in the Solokha Royal Kurgan in the Zaporizhzhia...
Ancient Lyubech in Ukraine: Ancestral home of Volodymyr the Great, Gateway...
Lyubech is currently a rural settlement in Chernihiv Oblast, northern Ukraine. It is located 200 kilometers north of Kyiv, and near the border with...
He, Who Fights Alone: Volodymyr Monomakh, fearless hunter and Kyiv Rus’...
Volodymyr Monomakh was born a year before the death of Yaroslav “the Wise.” Vsevolod, Volodymyr’s father, was Yaroslav’s youngest son. The Primary Chronicle records...
Pereyaslavl, Volodymyr Monomakh’s native city: His decisive battles against Polovtsians
Primary Chronicle for the year 1054 states: “Yaroslav, Great Prince of Rus', passed away. While he was yet alive, he admonished his sons with...
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‘Chernobyl’ miniseries got many things wrong, – Petro Shavrey
"At first, I thought it would be a documentary. I was asked to express my opinion after I watched that film. I watched it...
The Crimean War of 1854: Russia’s backwardness exposed, War gamble ends...
Professor of History at the University of London Orlando Figes in his book Crimea: The Last Crusade described the consequences of the Crimean War...
Veche Assembly of Kyiv Rus: Scandinavians had a similar tradition, Muscovites...
Per Wikipedia, Veche was a popular assembly during the Middle Ages. The veche is mentioned during the times of Kyiv Rus and it later became a powerful institution in Russian cities...
Most unusual and possibly most ancient Scythian barrow near Kyiv: Perepyatykh...
E. Minns in the "Scythians and Greeks" book published in 1913: "An isolated example recalling this type is the barrow called Perepjatikha, in the...
“Smoke on the water, the fire on Moskva” – Deep Purple...
"Smoke on the Water" - a new painting depicting the sinking of Russian warship "Maskva" in the Black Sea during the Russia's ongoing war...
In August of 1937, Moscow demolished 12th-century St. Michael’s Cathedral in...
St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery is situated on the central hill of Kyiv overlooking the Dnieper River and the northern part of Ukraine's capital. It was...
Russians are ‘lower in the scale of nature than the orangutan’,...
"Few accuse Winston Churchill of naiveté, especially about the Soviet Union, yet his quarters, at Yalta and during previous meetings with Stalin, were also...
Achilles and Ukraine
“Sing, Goddess, of the rage of Peleus’ son Achilles,” is the opening line of the Iliad. Achilles was the warrior who became the very symbol...
Tauric Chersonesus in Crimea vandalized by Russians in the 18th century,...
Edward Daniel Clarke (1769-1822) wrote in his famous book 'Travels in Russia' which became a bestseller in 19th-century Europe: "The country included within the isthmus...
Mykola Pymonenko whose works inspired Kazimir Malevich. His Hopak painting was...
Mykola Pymonenko was a Ukrainian realist painter who lived and worked in Kyiv. Pymonenko is best known for his urban and rural genre scenes of...