By comprehending the ingenious personality of Panteleymon Kulish (1819-1897), the author of well-known "Notes on Southern Rus", historical novel "Black Rada", one of the first translators of the Holy Scripture into Ukrainian, our souls seem to replay the complicated history of our nation.
The thing is that during the soviet era his art had been labelled as "bourgeois nationalistic" which put the idea of his museum out of the question.
That is why Panteleymon Kulish's historical and memorial preser ... Read more »

The first record of the Old Russian town of Lyubech we find in "The Tale of Bygone Years" dated back to 882, when on the way from Novgorod to Kyiv Prince Oleg the Prophetic captured it and set his governor there ("occupied Lyubets and set his man"). One more ancient record goes back to 907 - in the agreement of the same Prince Oleg with Byzantium together with the then most famous Old Russian towns as Kyiv, Chernihiv, Pereyaslav, Polotsk.
Already at that time this town on the Dnipro was an important stro ... Read more »