Yuriy Havryliuk

Ivan Kraskovsky, an outstanding figure of the Ukrainian and Belarusian national liberation movements, was born on June 24, 1880, in the village of Dubychi Tserkovni in the family of the Orthodox priest Hnat Kraskovsky (1850-1909) whose grave is still in the Dubychi churchyard. The village belonged...

Throughout the centuries the Kholm region [today: Chelm, Poland] was historically linked with the western Ukrainian lands, sharing in their cultural and religious life in the face of every adversity. Everything changed after 1795, when the Rzeczpospolita was carved up. First a border was...