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Book/Printed MaterialUkrainian Culture: A Short History of the Cultural Life of the Ukrainian People. In the summer of 1918, Ivan Ogienko (1882--1972), a Ukrainian scientist and political, public, and ecclesiastical figure, became a founder and the first president of Kam'ianets'-Podil's'kyi state university (subsequently renamed after him). He later gave a course of lectures on Ukrainian culture at the university, on which this book is based. Part I concerns the history of the culture until the 17th century. It...- Contributor: Ilarion, Metropolitan of Winnipeg and All Canada
- Date: 1918
- Resource: - 28 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Aeneid. This book is the first printed work of the new Ukrainian literature written in the popular language. It introduced to the world the Ukrainian people with their history, language, traditions, faith, and ethical and aesthetic views, drawing upon materials derived from the social life of Ukraine of the late 18th--early 19th centuries. The work is based on The Aeneid, the epic poem by the...- Contributor: Virgil, 70 Bce-19 Bce - Kotliï¸ a︡revsʹkyÄ, Ivan Petrovych
- Date: 1798
- Resource: - 183 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Song of Igor's Campaign: Text in Translation with Explanations of the Rules of Accents and Rhyme in the Old Russian Language. Presented here is a translation into Ukrainian of Slovo o polku Igoreve (The song of Igor's campaign), the heroic poem from the end of the 12th century that is one of the great monuments of Old Russian literature. The translation was issued in 1884 by the printing house of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lvov (present-day L'viv), at that time part of the Austro-Hungarian...- Contributor: Musin-Pushkin, AlekseÄ Ivanovich, Graf - Partytskii, O.
- Date: 1884
- Resource: - 168 pages
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Photo, Print, DrawingWell in Memory of the Holy Baptism. This view of the Well in Memory of the Holy Baptism (known today as the Magdeburg Rights Column) is from Souvenir of Kiev, an early 20th-century album showing the main sites of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine and at that time one of the most important cities of the Russian Empire. Prince Vladimir Sviatoslavich (958--1015), or Saint Vladimir the Great, converted to Christianity in...- Date: 1900
- Resource: - 1 page
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Book/Printed MaterialVrubelʹ. Mikhail Vrubelʹ (1856--1910) was a Russian painter known for his unusual style, which synthesized elements of native Russian art with Western and Byzantine influences. Born in Omsk to a Polish father and a Russian mother, he moved to Saint Petersburg in 1874 to study law. He abandoned his legal studies and in 1880 entered the Academy of Fine Arts. In a career cut short...- Contributor: Ivanov, A. P. (Aleksandr Pavlovich)
- Date: 1916
- Resource: - 116 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialMikhail Alexandrovich Vrubelʹ: Life and Work. Mikhail Alexandrovich Vrubelʹ (1856--1910) was a Russian painter known for his unusual style that synthesized elements of native Russian art with Western and Byzantine influences. Born in Omsk to a Polish father and a Russian mother, he moved to Saint Petersburg in 1874 to study law. He abandoned his legal studies and in 1880 entered the Academy of Fine Arts. In a career cut...- Contributor: Aremich, Stepan Petrovich
- Date: 1911
- Resource: - 208 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialCentral Asian questions; Demetrius Charles Boulger (1853-1928) was a British orientalist who wrote prolifically on topics mainly related to the British Empire. With Sir Lepel Henry Griffin (1840-1908), a British administrator in India, he co-founded the Asiatic Quarterly Review, which he edited for a time. An unapologetic imperialist with strongly anti-Russian views, Boulger criticized the British government for its lack of assertiveness, as he saw it, in...- Contributor: Boulger, Demetrius Charles
- Date: 1885
- Resource: - 481 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialTrailing the Bolsheviki : twelve thousand miles with the allies in Siberia,- Contributor: Ackerman, Carl W. (Carl William)
- Date: 1919
- Resource: - 366 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialModern geography. A description of the empires, kingdoms, states, and colonies; with the oceans, seas, and isles; in all parts of the world: including the most recent discoveries, and political alterations: Digested ... "Catalogue of maps, and of books of voyages and travels": v. 2, p. 792-802. Vols. 1 and 2 have supplements containing corrections and additions 1817.- Contributor: Pond, John - Pinkerton, John - Nicolle De La Croix
- Date: 1811