Serhiy Shevchenko

Ukraine remembers the victims of the Solovky tragedy in the months of October and November, when over 1,100 “counterrevolutionaries” were executed during the “Great Terror.” Other mass shootings took place in December 1937 and November 1938. During this same period hundreds of prisoners were...

“The revolution rolled thunderously over intellectuals’ souls...”SLON magazine (1924) For the past several years, residents of Kyiv have been gathering near the monument to the famous Ukrainian theater director Les Kurbas, located on the corner of Prorizna and Pushkinska Streets. They assemble on...

Not far from Belomorkanal, to the left of the highway from Medvezhegorsk to Povenets, there is a tract of land known as Sandarmokh, formerly a “regular execution site.” In the years of political terror, between 9 and 12 thousand people were massacred there (according to the newspaper Kareliya, a...

Cavalry General Georgy Emmanuel, of Serbian parentage, hero of the war during Napoleon’s invasion of Russia (known in Russian/Soviet history as the Patriotic War of 1812), played an important role in the inter- Slavic military relationships at the turn of the 19th century. It is an established fact...

Many Ukrainians have grown used to myths about good foreign rulers, most likely because Ukraine has long been part of neighboring empires. In Kirovohrad oblast, part of the populace wants the city to have the old tsarist name, Yelyzavethrad (the city of Elizabeth), because Elizabeth of Russia was,...