Yaroslav Myshanych

(Conclusion. For Part I, see The Day, No. 23) Gogol borrowed the story of the dreadful execution of Cossack officers and the order to mount a traveling display of their heads to various Ukrainian cities from Istoriya Rusov. From this chronicle Gogol also took the story of the Ukrainian Orthodox...

The history of ancient Ukrainian literature has quite a few blank spots that make researchers uneasy but which are used by writers as an inspiring source of new romantic plots and characters. But even in the old literature there were few books that can compare to Istoriya Rusov in terms of the...

HRYHORIY POLETYKA, CELEBRATED THEORETICIAN OF “AUTONOMISM” The ideals of freedom in the post-Soviet territories are more often than not associated with North America, although in our past we can find quite a few examples worthy of emulation. Historical documents attest that a true national-...