Serhiy Hupalo

Three hundred years ago, in September-October 1705, the Kyivan Cave Monastery published the fourth and final part of the book Chet’ Menaion by Metropolitan of Rostov Dymytrii Tuptalo. This champion of Orthodoxy was a true son of the Ukrainian soil and a defender of our ancestors’ faith. On the way...

Sofia Rusova, nПe Lindsfors, the founder of Ukrainian preschool pedagogy and an outstanding public figure and stateswoman of Ukraine, was born on Feb. 18, 1856, in the village of Oleshnia, Ripkyn district, now Chernihiv oblast. Her father was a Swede and her mother of French origin. Sofia first...

A CELEBRATED ARTIST The name of Nil Antonovych Khasevych was restored to art lovers after Ukraine won its independence. Works that the artist created when he was in the Ukrainian underground began emerging from KGB archives. “Bei,” “Zot,” “333,” and “Staryi” were the code names of Khasevych, who...

OUN LEADER YEVHEN KONOVALETS Acts of terrorism are a serious threat to mankind, which are becoming a symbol of a destructive modus vivendi. This issue cannot be circumvented, and discounting it means a permanent feeling of discomfort, especially for those who are not afraid to broach “prickly”...

September 25 marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Artistic Ukrainian Movement (known by its Ukrainian acronym MUR, which in the Ukrainian language conjures up associations with a castle wall — Ed.). This organization united Ukrainian writers in exile who ended up in displaced persons...

The Ukrainian land was not only a haven for this gifted individual but a constant source of nourishment for his creative talent, which offered him a vast field for his pedagogical endeavors. Jozef Korzenowski, a noted Polish author and teacher, was born on March 19, 1797, in Smolno, a village not...

The hero of this article represented a Ukrainian school in Polish literature known as the ZA-GO-GRA three (Bogdan Zaleski, Seweryn Goszczynski, and Michal Grabowski). He highly praised the Ukrainian idea, valued above all the land where he was born, and always returned to his native place no matter...

HER UNIVERSITIES Although this article concerns a classic of Ukrainian literature, we should start with some biographical facts. Olha-Maria Kobylianska was born on November 27, 1863, in Gurahumora, a small town in Bukovyna (now in Romania), which was then part of Austro-Hungary. The future author...

December 18 marked the 95th birth anniversary of the outstanding Ukrainian writer Yuriy Kosach (Jurij Kosacz). The life path of Lesia Ukrayinka’s nephew was studded with great frustrations, hopes, and grave mistakes. Having opted in his youth for exalted ideals and disobedience, Yuriy Kosach served...

Continued from The Day No. 29 THE RELIGIOUS QUESTION Adam Kysil shouldered the incredibly heavy burden of fulfilling the Treaty of Zboriv, especially the Cossacks’ demand to abolish the Uniate church. Of course, the latter clause could not be realized. The idealistic and romantically minded...