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Khokhols: Ilya Repin’s Ukrainian Cossacks
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....
Khokhol Hairstyle: Millennium-Old Mark of Nobility of Kyiv Rus Rulers
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...
Older than Stonehenge and Pyramids: Megalithic Cromlech Kurgan in Ukraine
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...
Homer’s Iliad & Ancient Ukraine: Achilles’ Burial of his friend Patroclus
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...
Russian Betrayal of All Its Treaties in 1939: NYTimes archival article
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...
Scythian Pegasus: Chertomlyk Silver Vase
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...
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13-year-old Ukrainian Oleksiy Sereda became the youngest European champion in the...
"Ukraine's 13-year-old diving sensation Oleksii Sereda has become the sport's youngest-ever European champion after winning 10m platform gold in Kiev. Sereda is three months younger...
Scythian Farmers, Skoloti, Proto-Slavs, Rus-Ukraine
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...
‘Chumaks path in Mariupol’ by Arkhip Kuindzi
https://www.wikiart.org/en/arkhip-kuindzhi/moonlight-night-on-the-dnieper-1880
Best hikes in the world: Ukraine’s Carpatian mountains, – WiredForAdventure
"Stretching from central to eastern Europe and measuring a whopping 932 miles long, the Carpathian Mountain range is the second longest mountain chain on...
Merv/ Khorasan steelmaking site that produced the swords used by Kyiv...
"While the Romans were in consternation at this din, suddenly their enemies dropped the coverings of their armour, and were seen to be themselves...
Giant abandoned space-age saucer: Kiev Bus Garage Number 7 – CNN
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Movies about Ukraine
The soundtrack to the American movie about Ukrainian Cossaks "Taras Bulba" in 1963 was nominated for Oscar. Currently Hollywod is about to release in 2017 the movie...
Cossacks’ Songs
The Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus Ensemble & the Canadian Bandurist Capella joined together for the first time with their wonderful «Kobzar's Christmas» concert of Ukrainian Christmas music. The...
The Rus army used ‘Sulaymani’ swords, – 10th-century Persian explorer ibn...
According to Wikipedia, Ahmad ibn Rustah was a tenth-century Muslim Persian explorer and geographer born in Rosta, Isfahan in the Abbasid Caliphate. He wrote a geographical compendium known as the Kitāb al-A‘lāq al-Nafīsa ('Book...
Why Crane. About this Website
Thank you for visiting my website. This site was created with the purpose to help you discover beautiful country of Ukraine. Why Crane anyway? Not just because...
‘Stalin broke every promise he made at Yalta,’ – President Roosevelt’s...
At Yalta resort in 1945, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill met Joseph Stalin to determine the fate of post-war Europe. Roosevelt misread Stalin—and proved...
Katheryn ‘Lagertha’ Winnick in Kyiv, May 2023
The famous The Vikings series actress Katheryn Winnick visited Kyiv and took a picture with Ukrainian flag in front of St. Michael's Cathedral in...