‘The Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV’ by Ilya Repin
The 2.03 m (6 foot 7 inch) by 3.58 m (11 foot 9 inch) canvas was started in 1880 and finished in 1891. Repin recorded the years of...
‘Harbingers of the Resurrection’ by Nikolai Ge
https://www.wikiart.org/en/nikolai-ge
‘Easter morning prayer” by M. Pimonenko
https://www.wikiart.org/en/mykola-pymonenko
John Steinbeck on Ukrainian bee farm
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We moved on to a flowered meadow where there were hundreds of
beehives, and a little tent where the beekeeper lived. The...
A mysterious Trypillya culture in Ukraine was older than the Egyptian one. It constructed...
There was a mysterious culture in Eastern Europe between 5,500 to 2,700 BC which constructed sophisticated, organized, densely-populated settlements - only...
10th century Kyiv Easter Egg discovered in Sweden
Glazed ceramic Resurrection eggs. The egg is made of glazed fired clay. It varies in colour from bright chocolate brown to...
John Steinbeck depicts Ukrainian women
“On the way to our hotel we noticed, as everyone does, that the
Ukrainian girls are very pretty, mostly blond, with fine...
John Steinbeck depicts Ukrainians and their difference from Russians
Different looks, heartiness
“Everyone had told us it would be different once we got outside of Moscow, that the sternness and the...
John Steinbeck describes the ruins of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, St. Sophia and sarcophagus of Yaroslav...
"We went from this little plaster city, so new that it has not even been built yet, to the ancient monastery...
In 1710 the Ukrainian Cossacks drafted one of Europe’s first state constitutions, which had...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Pylyp_Orlyk
