Khokhols: Ilya Repin’s Ukrainian Cossacks

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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....

Khokhol Hairstyle: Millennium-Old Mark of Nobility of Kyiv Rus Rulers

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Central WW2 Victory Parade should have always been held in Kyiv

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Ilya Repin: Only Ukrainian and Parisian women know how to dress with...

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Ilya Repin was born in 1844 in the town of Chuguev in what is now Kharkiv oblast of Ukraine. Historically, the region was known...

Giant abandoned space-age saucer: Kiev Bus Garage Number 7 – CNN

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https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/ukraine-abandoned-space-age-saucer

Could Trypillian/Ukrainian ‘Yin-Yang’ be related to Megalithic stone circles in Britain?

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From around 1933 to 1977, Professor of Engineering at Oxford Alexander Thom spent most of his weekends and holidays surveying megalithic sites in Britain....

Name of Lithuanian capital Vilnius may have derived from Ukrainian word...

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Ukraine Prepares To Snub China In Aerospace Deal With U.S. Help...

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‘Russian is literally a two-legged pig’ – 18th century English traveler...

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Edward Daniel Clarke (5 June 1769 – 9 March 1822) was an English naturalist, minerologist, and traveller (Wikipedia). One of his bestsellers sold over Europe was the "Travels...

Castles of Kyiv Rus: Why the realm was called Gardariki

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The title illustration and the one below were found in the book 'Zhivopisnaya Rossiya', vol. 5 that was published in 1897. The illustration below...

‘Clearly Europeoid’ Scythian Skull Found in Ukraine: Facial reconstruction by M....

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Mikhail Gerasimov (1907 - 1970) was a Soviet archaeologist and anthropologist who developed the first technique of forensic sculpture based on findings of anthropology, archaeology, paleontology, and forensic science. He studied the skulls and...

Trump blaming Ukraine for starting the war with Russia is akin...

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Feb. 19, 2025, NBC News: "President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that Ukraine was responsible for Russia's invasion of the country three years ago, arguing...