Volodymyr Rychka

Raising the question of the right of Eastern Slavic peoples to the old Kyivan heritage is a natural result of modern historical thinking, when the interpretation of history is the chief method of reconstructing the life stories of nations and defending their supposed historic right. As US scholar...

The new book by Tetiana Kara-Vasylieva, Masterpieces of Church Needlework in Ukraine (Twelfth to Twentieth Centuries) introduces readers to one of the most interesting and yet little known areas of Ukrainian culture, church embroidery. Tightly linked with icon and fresco painting and later with...

Try to imagine Ukraine without its watery Dnipro majestically and proudly rolling down toward the Black Sea. Immortalized and glorified in folk songs and historical legends, the Dnipro or Slavutych played an important role, still to be duly appreciated by researchers, in the formation of the...