Volodymyr Horak

During the Ukrainian civil war of 1917-21 there were two great military and political forces: militarized formations of Ukrainian People’s Republic and the insurgent army of Nestor Ivanovych Makhno. Each had tens of thousands of armed soldiers (in their best times), and was able to fight...

In the large pantheon of Soviet heroes one of the most conspicuous places is occupied by the legendary Soviet intelligence agent Nikolai Ivanovych Kuznetsov. This man, who fearlessly assassinated Nazi military leaders in broad daylight, became the hero of numerous serious books, articles and...

July 13, 1015, saw the end of the earthly path of Prince Volodymyr the Great, one of the best-known and, at the same time, most complicated and controversial figures in our national history. Volodymyr departed this life and his state, Kyivan Rus’, at quite a difficult time. No sooner had the prince...

It is hard to say precisely what kind of relationships the well-known peasants’ otaman Nestor Makhno had with the communists, because they were much too complicated and contradictory. On the one hand, Makhno and his insurgents were the Bolsheviks’ allies several times (four, according to our...

(Conclusion. For Part One, see previous issue, No. 27)Petro Nesterov was already convinced, much more so than many other pilots in Russia, of the enormous technological potential of airplanes. While he was still a cadet at Gatchina, he once said that a skillfully-piloted plane could easily describe...

The main character in this article is the renowned pilot and aircraft designer Petro Nesterov, who was destined to live a very short life, but long enough for his name to go down in world aviation history after he achieved his major victories in the skies over Ukraine.Petro Nesterov was born in...

The revolutionary camp that opposed Hetman Skoropadsky’s regime turned out to be politically heterogeneous. There were radical revolutionaries as well as moderate elements. Without a doubt, Colonel Petro Bolbochan belonged to the latter group, as evidenced by a number of facts. For example, this...

(Continued from The Day, no. 12) FAMILY ENCOUNTERS AND PARTINGS After a short while Skoropadsky’s wife and daughter boarded a train at the Kyiv train station and left for St. Petersburg. Their departure heralded the beginning of a complicated and responsible period in Skoropadsky’s life. In...

Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky is one of the most well known figures in the dramatic history of Ukraine. Thanks to the efforts of my fellow historians, there is now a considerable amount of information about him. However, until now everything that has been written about this prominent figure concerns his...

Continued from The Day (no. 5, Feb. 12, 2008) Around June 1604 a military camp was set up in the vicinity of Lviv, to which Jerzy Mniszech invited anyone who was willing to participate in False Dimitrii’s campaign against Moscow. The impostor’s army was a motley crew comprised of nearly 1,000 petty...