Bohdan Khmelnytsky

(Conclusion. For Part I, see The Day, No. 3) In his [Russian-language] work Maksim Zhelezniak, Volodymyr Holobutsky claims that Maksym Zalizniak was born in the village of Ivkivtsi, which was then part of what was known as the “Polish province,” in today’s Chyhyryn raion, Cherkasy oblast. This is...

Where’s Zalizniak, that soul sincere?Where does he rest at last? The times are foul! The hangman reigns, And none recalls the past. (Taras Shevchenko, “The Haidamaks”) The national-liberation movement of the Ukrainian people has always occupied a special place in their history. One such heroic...

By Serhiy VASYLIEV, The Day Jerzy Hofman's saga With Fire and Sword premiered simultaneously and with much pomp at Warsaw's two principal cultural centers, the Opera House and Congress Hall. Public interest in this motion picture, as in the recently released screen version of Sienkiewicz's...