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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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Fun to watch 66-year old train in such good shape and at such a speed!

Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne (1769 – 1834) was a French diplomat known primarily for his close relationship with Napoleon Bonaparte. His 'Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte' is a...

William Henry Chamberlin (1897 – 1969) was an American historian and journalist. He was the author of several books about the Cold War, communism, and foreign policy,...

It's Harvard Professor Serhii Plokhy this time with the book "The Gates of Europe: The History of Ukraine"   ("An indispensable guide to tragic history" - The Telegraph...

The unique features of S-300V1 air defense system consist in that is the world’s only truly mobile Anti Ballistic Missile system. The S-300V...

'The Book of Ceremonies' of Constantine Porphyrogennetos published by Brill in 2017 has the following introduction: "Constantine VII (905-959) was the grandson of Basil I,...

"In 1492, the year Christopher Columbus landed on the Caribbean island he named San Salvador and King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella signed a decree...

In 1698, Peter I was in London to acquire some personal insights into how the shipbuilding industry could be organized and run. A large...

Katheryn Winnick - born in Etobicoke, Ontario, and is of Ukrainian descent. She spoke Ukrainian as her first language and did not begin speaking English until she was eight years old. She began...

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The quotes below are from the bestselling book of the 18th century 'Travels in Russia' written by a British traveler Edward Daniel Clarke (1769-1822)....