Panteleimon Vasylevsky

The creative work of writer Nikolai Gogol (Mykola Hohol, an ethnic Ukrainian) was highly acclaimed not only in Russia but also throughout Ukraine when he was still alive. Gogol was permeated with Ukraine wherever he was. It is perhaps no accident that the contemporary connoisseurs of his works...

The Russians commonly say “You are so heavy to wear, cap of Monomachus,” and if some power- wielding head is not equal to the office held... The crown thus called has been kept since ancient times at the Armory, a Moscow Kremlin museum, as the old crown of grand princes and tsars of Muscovy...

The village of Yaropolets was called Yaropolche before the nineteenth century. It is situated 120 kilometers northwest of Moscow, near the town of Volokolamsk. It is there that our “gallant hetman,” as Taras Shevchenko called him, found his eternal rest. The village was called after its first...