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Herodotus gave the most detailed description of Scythia in his work written about 480–420 BC. Most likely, the Greek historian made a visit to...

Priscus of Panium was an Eastern Roman diplomat and Greek historian who, in 448/449 AD, accompanied Maximinus, the head of the Byzantine embassy representing Emperor Theodosius II (r. 402–450), on a diplomatic mission to the...

Agathangel Krymsky (1871-1942) was a polyglot who was fluent in 35 languages ​​(some estimates put it at up to 60), including Arabic, Persian, Turkish,...

Soviet Academician Borys Rybakov, in his monograph ‘Handicraft of Ancient Rus’, wrote in 1948: “Funeral rites of the Middle Dnieper region in the 9th-10th centuries...

Swedish academic and Professor of archaeology Anne-Sofie Gräslund (b. 1940) in her 1980 book ‘The Burial Customs. A study of the graves on Björkö’...

The first known ruler of Kyiv, Dir, is mentioned in both the Primary Chronicle and a Redaction of the Novgorod First Chronicle. Although the...

Valeria Novodvorskaya was named "Don Quixote of Russian Democracy". Most likely, she was the last true representative of that class. "Publicist, politician, social critic...

https://news.unikrn.com/article/dota2-the-international-2021-ti11-kiev-proposal-host-city-bid-vitalii-n_rs

Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan (1600 - 1673) was a French-Polish cartographer, engineer and architect. Here is his description of Kyiv around the year 1650: "Kiow, otherwise called...

There had been some immigration of Ukrainians to Canada as early as 1812. However, the first recorded Ukrainian immigrants to Canada were Ivan Pylypiw and Wasyl Eleniak, farmers from Galicia....

After Catherine II "the great" of Muscovy, died in 1796, among her papers, the 'Reflections on the Project of History of Russia' written in...

As quoted in the previous part, the woman buried in Great Ryzhanovka Kurgan "wore eight rings, two seal rings, two sets with gold staters of...

The torques or gryvnas were the symbols of high office in the Scythian world. These adornments were worn by both men and women of...

Quotes below are from “The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999” by Yale Professor Dr. Timothy Snyder published in 2003 (the publishing...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/ukraine/articles/amazing-fact-you-probably-didnt-know-about-ukraine/

Harvard Professor Richard Pipes stated in his 'Russia Under the Old Regime': "The Golden Age of the Orthodox Church in Russia coincided with Mongol...