This is a bombshell, putting to the lie Russian propaganda’s longstanding claim that some spiritual entity called Russia has ...

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

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 ...

Repin’s life is closely connected with the Kharkiv region, where he was born; and Repin’s Cossack roots strongly influenced his work. In his works, he depicted human figures in motion, giving them a ...

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 ...

French President Emmanuel Macron (R) meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) in Moscow on February 7, 2022, for talks in an effort to find common ground on Ukraine and NATO, at the start ...

The Russian empire also relied on German, Polish, Swedish, Tatar, Cossack, and Ukrainian elites to administer its rule in their regions, helping to ensure that many non-Russians occupied privileged ...

The supposed reunification of 1654 only inaugurated three centuries of Russian colonial oppression. The Cossack leader Mazepa was a hero of national revival and resistance to imperial rule. The ...