Fedir Shepel

Meeting with the candidate of historical sciences Iryna Kanevska who briefly visited her hometown of Kirovohrad was held in June, when beneficial rain was about to come down to thirsty soil. Being a researcher at the Hrushevsky Institute of Ukrainian Archaeography and Source Studies of the...

In January of far gone 1862, using the “demonic” phrase of Mikhail Lermontov, the sarcastic poet Dmitry Minaev made a sort of a compliment to the Slavophile efforts of the newspaper Den: There is no better madrigal for The Day“Neither day, nor night,neither darkness, nor light.” In 1997, in an...

As a kid I loved books about American Indians because these people were so very much like our Zaporozhian Cossacks with their love for freedom, mental sharpness, inbred understanding of nature, and even their unmatched skill of giving each other accurate sobriquets. Remarkably, decades later,...

On April 5, 1933, almost all army counterintelligence elements and Soviet Ukraine’s secret police (GPU) units suddenly evinced interest in the previous year’s graduates of the Ukrainian Cavalry School stationed in the provincial town of Zinovyevsk. The Vinnytsia oblast GPU branch and...

The Soviet totalitarian regime’s double standard was especially blatant under Stalin, in the system’s attitude toward noted cultural figures who were publicly lauded and privately persecuted. One such vivid example is Mykola Sadovsky, a legendary actor of the Ukrainian theater, one of those whose...