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    The Ukraine. In preparation for the peace conference that was expected to follow World War I, in the spring of 1917 the British Foreign Office established a special section responsible for preparing background information for use by British delegates to the conference. The Ukraine is Number 52 in a series of more than 160 studies produced by the section, most of which were published after the...
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
    • Date: 1920
    • Resource: - 128 pages

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    The History of Ukrainian Drama. This work by Ukrainian literary critic, writer, and translator Ivan Steshenko is the first volume of a projected multivolume history of the Ukrainian theater. The volume is in five chapters. The first covers general conceptual and historical issues, such as the rise of the theater and the transformation of ancient cult rituals into performances. The second chapter covers Latin-Germanic and Slavonic folk rites and...
    • Contributor: Steshenko, Ivan Matveevich
    • Date: 1908
    • Resource: - 342 pages

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    Art of Ancient Rus'-Ukraine. This book is a short history of the art of Ancient Rus', the medieval polity centered on Kiev, which flourished from the 9th to the 13th centuries, and which formed the basis for much of later Russian and Ukrainian culture. Topics covered include the influences of the Varangians and of Eastern Orthodoxy, the importance of Christianity, wooden architecture, churches and monasteries in Kiev, art...
    • Contributor: Shmit, F. I. (Fedor Ivanovich)
    • Date: 1919
    • Resource: - 118 pages

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    Ukrainian People in the Past and Present. This book is the second volume of a two-volume, Russian-language encyclopedia of the Ukrainian people. The authors of the articles were prominent Ukrainian and Russian scholars. They included S. Rudnitskii, who wrote about geography of Ukraine; O. Rusov, V. Ohrimovich and S. Tomashevskii, who wrote about population statistics; F. Vovk, whose article was on anthropological and ethnographic features specific to the Ukrainians; and O....
    • Contributor: Ohrimovich, V. - Tomashevskii, S. - Shakhmatov, A. A. (Alekseĭ Aleksandrovich) - Rusov, Oleksandr O. - Vovk, Khvedir - Rudnyt︠s︡ʹkyĭ, Stepan
    • Date: 1916
    • Resource: - 415 pages

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    Ukrainian 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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    Album of the Coats of Arms of Ukraine. This collection of prints depicts the historic coats of arms and flags of Ukraine. The work is by Mykola Bytynsʹkyĭ (1893--1972), a Ukrainian painter and expert on heraldry. Bytynsʹkyĭ fought in the Ukrainian War for Independence at the end of World War I and later immigrated to Prague where he studied arts and produced several works on heraldry. After World War II, he lived...
    • Contributor: Bytynsʹkyĭ, Mykola
    • Date: 1918
    • Resource: - 8 pages

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    Monuments of Ukrainian Art of the 18th Century. This booklet is by Nikolai Makarenko, a specialist in architecture, art history, and archaeology and later director of the Kiev Museum of Arts. He begins by reflecting on the beneficial effects of Cossack culture on southern Russia and its significant impact on Ukrainian culture. He praises 17th- and 18th-century style and describes Pokrovskaia Church as an example of beautiful and pure architecture. The church...
    • Contributor: Makarenko, Nikolai
    • Date: 1908
    • Resource: - 20 pages

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    The Cultural and National Movement in Ukraine in the 16th and 17th Centuries. Mykhailo Hrushevs'kyi (1866--1934) was a professor of history and a leading political figure in Ukraine, who served as chairman of the Ukrainian Central Council at the time of the Russian Revolution of 1917. This work, published in 1912, is devoted to the national and cultural movement of Ukraine in the 16th and 17th centuries and the formation of a Ukrainian national consciousness. Much of...
    • Contributor: Hrushevsʹkyĭ, Mykhaĭlo
    • Date: 1912
    • Resource: - 264 pages

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    Kobzar. Taras Shevchenko (1814-61) was a Ukrainian artist and writer who is considered the greatest poet of Ukraine and the founder of modern Ukrainian literature. He was born into a family of serfs in the village of Morinsty in present-day Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire. Orphaned at an early age, he studied painting with local icon painters. He was taught to read and...
    • Contributor: Shevchenko, Taras
    • Date: 1840
    • Resource: - 116 pages

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    Description of Ukraine, or Regions of the Kingdom of Poland between Muscovy and Transylvania. Presented here is an early translation into Russian of Description d'Ukranie, an influential work first published in French in 1651. The author, Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan, was a French engineer who worked in Poland between 1630 and 1647. He built fortifications in Ukraine, most of which was then under Polish control, took part in battles with the Cossacks and Tatars, and in 1639...
    • Contributor: Beauplan, Guillaume Le Vasseur, Sieur De, Born Approximately 1600
    • Date: 1832
    • Resource: - 222 pages

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    People Await the Opening of a Soup Kitchen in Aleksandrovsk, Ukraine. This photograph shows hungry people, mostly women and children, waiting with their containers for the soup kitchen to open in Aleksandrovsk (present-day Zaporozhye), Ukraine, in 1921. Famine struck the Soviet Union in 1921, one of the consequences of seven years of war. Under the auspices of the American Relief Administration (ARA) established by the United States government, the Joint Distribution Committee of American Funds...
    • Contributor: Joint Distribution Committee of the American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers
    • Date: 1921
    • Resource: - 1 page
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    The 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 - Kotli︠a︡revsʹkyĭ, Ivan Petrovych
    • Date: 1798
    • Resource: - 183 pages

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    Bukovina. In preparation for the peace conference that was expected to follow World War I, in the spring of 1917 the British Foreign Office established a special section responsible for preparing background information for use by British delegates to the conference. Bukovina is Number 5 in a series of more than 160 studies produced by the section, most of which were published after the conclusion...
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
    • Date: 1920
    • Resource: - 50 pages

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    Austrian Poland. In preparation for the peace conference that was expected to follow World War I, in the spring of 1917 the British Foreign Office established a special section responsible for preparing background information for use by British delegates to the conference. Austrian Poland is Number 46 in a series of more than 160 studies produced by the section, most of which were published after the...
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
    • Date: 1920
    • Resource: - 94 pages

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    A Collection of Songs of the Bukovina People. Bukovina is a region in southeastern Europe that is today partly in Ukraine and partly in Romania. Between 1775 and 1918 it was ruled by the Austrian Empire. It was annexed by Romania after World War I and divided between the Soviet Union and Romania after World War II. This book is a collection of song lyrics, gathered in the second half of the...
    • Contributor: Lonachevsky, Alexander - Kupchanko, Hryhori
    • Date: 1875
    • Resource: - 240 pages

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    Theater and Drama: A Collection of Critical Articles on Theater and Dramatic Literature. Mikola Kindratovich Voroniy (1871--1938) was a prominent Ukrainian poet, writer, actor, and director. This book is a collection of his most important articles on the art of the theater and dramatic literature. The topics covered include the work of actors and directors, dramatic literature as the most complex genre of literary and artistic expression, and the nature and role of the audience. The author...
    • Contributor: Voronyij, Mykola Kìndratovy
    • Date: 1913
    • Resource: - 176 pages

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    Politico-economic review of Basarabia, This report provides an overview of political and economic conditions in Bessarabia (present-day Moldova) in the immediate aftermath of World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the transfer of the province from Russian to Romanian control. The work is by Captain John Kaba, a U.S. Army officer who completed a two-month survey of the province in the spring of 1919 on behalf of the...
    • Contributor: Kaba, John
    • Date: 1919
    • Resource: - 37 pages

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  • Periodical
    The Kharkiv Democritus : The Thousand and First Magazine. The Kharkiv Democritus was a Ukrainian magazine, published in six monthly issues in Kharkiv (in present-day Ukraine, at that time part of the Russian Empire) between January and June 1816. Its publisher and editor, Vasilii Maslovich (1793-1841), took the Saint Petersburg magazine Democritus (1815) as a model for the publication. The Kharkiv Democritus was the first Ukrainian periodical of a comical and satirical nature....
    • Contributor: Kvitka-Osnov'i︠a︡nenko, H. F. (Hryhoriĭ Fedorovych) - Maslovich, Vasilii - Somov, O. M. (Orest Mikhaĭlovich) - Iaroslavskii, D. - Nakhimov, Y.M.
    • Date: 1816
  • Book/Printed Material
    Bessarabia. In preparation for the peace conference that was expected to follow World War I, in the spring of 1917 the British Foreign Office established a special section responsible for preparing background information for use by British delegates to the conference. Bessarabia is Number 51 in a series of more than 160 studies produced by the section, most of which were published after the conclusion...
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
    • Date: 1920
    • Resource: - 64 pages

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    Carpathian Ruthenia. Ceramics. This image is part of an album probably published in about 1920 that contains 20 photographs of scenes in Carpathian Ruthenia, a mountainous region, most of which was part of the Austria-Hungary before World War I, but which became part of the new Czechoslovak state in 1919. Today the largest portion of it forms Zakarpattia Oblast in western Ukraine, with smaller parts in Slovakia...
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    Delineatio generalis Camporum Desertorum vulgo Ukraina : cum adjacentibus provinciis "Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan was a French engineer who worked in Poland between 1630 and 1647. He built fortifications in Ukraine, most of which was then under Polish control, took part in battles with the Cossacks and Tatars, and in 1639 traveled by boat down the Dnieper (Dnipro, in Ukrainian) River. Beauplan produced two important early maps of Ukraine that were based on...
    • Contributor: Hondius, Willem - Beauplan, Guillaume Le Vasseur
    • Date: 1648
  • Book/Printed Material
    Eternal Wisdom, a School Play from Kiev. The school drama is a theatrical form that developed in Ukraine in the 17th and 18th centuries. Students would perform plays written by their teachers as a way of receiving religious instruction and studying the principles of drama. The genre was said to have developed from the dialogic verse of the Christmas and Easter cycles that were popular in Western Europe beginning in the...
    • Contributor: Ri︠e︡zanov, V. I. (Volodymyr Ivanovych)
    • Date: 1912
    • Resource: - 90 pages

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    Kiev-Mezhyhirya Earthenware Factory. This book is a compilation of articles about the famed Kiev-Mezhyhirya Earthenware Factory, which was part of the 10th-century Mezhyhirya Monastery. The factory was founded at the end of the 18th century and produced such quantities of faience that by the mid-19th century it was the largest industrial enterprise in Kiev. The first part of the book is dedicated to the history of the...
    • Contributor: Kulʹz︠h︡enko, S. V. (Stefan Vasylʹovych)
    • Date: 1910
    • Resource: - 59 pages

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  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    T︠S︡arstvo Polʹskoe.
    Царство Польское.     This card is one of a souvenir set of 82 illustrated cards-one for each province of the Russian Empire as it existed in 1856. Each card presents an overview of a particular province's culture, history, economy, and geography. The front of the card depicts such distinguishing features as rivers, mountains, major cities, and chief industries. The back of each card contains a map of...

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    Poltavskai︠a︡ gubernii︠a︡.
    Полтавская губерния.     This card is one of a souvenir set of 82 illustrated cards-one for each province of the Russian Empire as it existed in 1856. Each card presents an overview of a particular province's culture, history, economy, and geography. The front of the card depicts such distinguishing features as rivers, mountains, major cities, and chief industries. The back of each card contains a map of...

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