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Kyiv controlled the Kerch Strait in 11th century AD: Stone of...
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...
Original Rus was centered in Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Pereyaslavl only; Even...
Academician Borys Rybakov (1908-2001) was a Soviet and Russian archeologist and historian who held a Chair in Russian history at Moscow University since 1939,...
‘Ukraine’ and ‘Muscovy’ names in the 1669 issue of The London...
The London Gazette - Wikipedia is one of the official journals of record or government gazettes of the Government of the United Kingdom, and...
Important Chernyakhiv Culture Was Local to Ancient Kyiv Rus-Ukraine: It was...
Wikipedia page states that the Chernyakhiv Archaeological Culture “territorially replaced its predecessor, the Zarubintsy culture. Both cultures were discovered by the Czech archaeologist Vikentiy...
Ancient Agrarian Calendar on 4th-century Romashky Jug found near Kyiv: Ties...
The ancient jug was found in 1899 during excavations near the village of Romashky in the Kyiv region by the prominent Czech archaeologist Vikentii...
Elk in Scythian Art of Borysthenites/Dnieper River Farmers: Proto-Slavs’ Totem Animal?
“Given the lack of folklore materials that could retrospectively illuminate the Slavic-Scythian relations of the 7th – 3rd centuries BC, one should turn to...
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Eastern Ukraine, Don region 220 years ago: Edward Clarke’s eyewitness account...
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)....
“The Entrance of Bogdan Khmelnytsky to Kyiv in 1649” by Mykola...
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The Rus were the Tauroscythians whose native land was Taurica/ Crimea....
The name Rus is first directly attested to in the 'Life of St. George of Amastris' written by Ignatios the Deacon (d. after 845)....
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Chornobyl electrician Oleksander Lelechenko saved his younger colleagues from radiation exposure...
Lelechenko is a beautiful Ukrainian last name because it derives from the Ukrainian word leleka which in English means stork. Unfortunately, many popular accounts of the Chornobyl...
Map of Ukraine of 1650 by French cartographer Beauplan
Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan (1600 - 1673) was a French army engineer, architect, and cartographer. From 1630 to 1648 he was a captain in...
Ukrainian Kateryna Bilokur, a self-taught painter-virtuoso praised by Pablo Picasso
In Dec. 2020, Doodle celebrated the 120th birthday of a Ukrainian painter with the following words: "Kateryna Bilokur, a self-taught virtuoso earned international renown for...
‘With at least 1,000 years of authentic history, no other nation...
Lancelot Lawton was a British historian, military officer, scholar of Ukrainian studies, activist, and international political journalist. In the early 1930s, he contributed to...
Ukrainian Cossacks – the power of Freedom. (Quotes from a Harvard...
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...
Napoleon’s Letter to Alexander I of Russia about the Conflagration of...
Napoleon's Letter to Alexander I of Russia: "Monsieur, my brother: Having been informed that the brother of your Imperial Majesty's Minister at Cassel was in...
‘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...
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The full story behind John Steinbeck's quote can be read here. Why borscht is a Ukrainian meal and not Russian is explained here. Borscht...