Geolocated footage published July 4 suggests Russian troops have seized the villages of Koptyeve and Shevchenko Pershe and ...

DONETSK, July 4. /TASS/. A Ukrainian POW decided to go fighting for Russia. Pavel Bolbot from the 141st mechanized brigade joined the Mikhail Pushkar unit in Zaporozhye and said he would fight to ...

Discover the Cossacks' impact on Ukraine's history, from their autonomous Sich to the modern revival of their symbols and ...

Helen Rappaport’s “The Rebel Romanov” tells the story of Julie of Saxe-Coburg (1781-1860). Born in impecunious obscurity in ...

Pushkin’s Poltava depicts the Ukrainian Cossack hetman Ivan Mazepa as a fickle traitor to the heroic Russian tsar Peter the Great, who nonetheless triumphed over the Swedes in the 1709 Battle of ...

The resulting sympathy for Russia’s imperial worldview finds expression among Western academics, media personalities and activists who deny Ukrainians’ agency in repeating the Kremlin ...

But Repin only went abroad for three years, from 1873 to 1876, a period during which he exhibited his works at the Paris Salon. Ukrainian motifs From the 1870s to the 1880s, the artist traveled ...

In the region of Sloboda, which ran from modern-day Sumy to Kharkiv oblasts, Cossack regiments were reforged into Russian imperial army units. In 1764, the Cossack system was abolished and ...

Like many officers of the Imperial Army, after the revolutions of 1917 he joined the anti-Bolshevik Volunteer Army, with which he took part in the infamous retreat known as the “Ice March,” eventually ...

Yes, all wars are bloody, but they’re not all fought like this. The First World War, for example, killed millions. Yet Captain Boris Sergievsky, a fighter pilot in the Imperial Russian Air ...

It was seized on by Putin, who used it as an arm of his foreign policy to defend the Russian speakers (he called them ‘our citizens’) left outside the territory of Russia after 1991.