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Capetian Dynasty: Portrait of Anne of Kiev
Capetian Dynasty: Portrait of Anne of Kiev
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Anne of Kiev
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Sonia Delaunay wearing Casa Sonia creations, Madrid, c.1920
Україна або козацька земля з прилеглими провінціями Валахії, Молдавії і Малої Татарії, зображена Йоганом-Баптистом Гоманном
It is known by the abbreviated name "Terra Cosaccorum". Johann Baptist Hohmann accumulated all the achievements of scientists, geographers, historians and data about the current situation in Ukraine known at the beginning of the 1700s to make this map. The site of the Battle of Poltava in 1709 is marked on the map; the lands of Transdanubian Sich, which were transferred to Turkey in 1711, are marked as part of the Crimean Khanate; the specified construction of the Perekop Wall, etc. In the cartouche, the territory is named Vkraina in the Latin manner, and already on the map itself it is marked as Ukraina.
Mura Zakrevska
Adventurer, double agent of the ODPU and English intelligence, countess, baroness, writer, diplomat, thief of hearts. An amazing woman who managed to live not one, but several lives at once. And she has several names: Maria Benckendorff, also known as Maria Budberg, also known as Mura Zakrevska.
Ivan Zavadsky
Born in 1780 near Hadyach in Poltava Oblast. He was a circumnavigator and polar explorer, cartographer, hydrographer, and collector of natural history collections. During 1819–1821, he served as deputy captain on the warship Vostok (Russian: Шкхид), which made a circumnavigation of the Southern Ocean in search of a route to the South Pole. This expedition was one of the first to discover Antarctica and the islands near it: the South Sandwich Islands, Alexander I, and Peter I. Since the days of Soviet historiography, Ivan Zavadovsky has been called a Russian, as has Lysyansky. Ivan Zavadovsky. Photo from open sources. One volcanic island was named in honor of Zavadovsky. In 2016, the government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands printed four postage stamps "Zavadovsky Island". Another island in the Western Ice Shelf near Antarctica was also named after him. In Oleksandr Dovzhenko's film story "Antarctica", Ivan Zavadovsky is one of the main characters.
Nudie Kon - Nudie and his Mandolin
Ukrainian Princess Olga
Ukrainian refugee - american style
Nudie Cohn on cover of Rolling Stone
Vasyl Vasiliovych Tarnovskyj Junior
admires his collection of Cossack antiquities. Kachanivka
Stoianov at the Batumi Classical Gymnasium