Larysa Antoshchuk

The development of culture, education, and scholarship in 16th- and 17th-century Ukraine was greatly influenced by the progressive ideas of the Renaissance, humanism, and, partly, the Reformation and Counterreformation, which were primarily introduced through the Ukrainian nobility’s contacts with...

I wish to be the son of truth, not evil, the son of a divine, not earthly, kingdom. A diary entry by the 22-year-old student Mykhailo Hrushevsky Have you ever earnestly considered why people keep diaries? There is no doubt that as a young student Mykhailo Hrushevsky used to record daily notes to...

A beauty like this is born once over centuries, wins acclaim..., and is long remembered by her descendants... S. Solovyov The name of Princess Galszka (Yelyzaveta) Ostrozka will always bring to mind such things as beauty, intelligence, wealth, benefaction, and...