Claimed by both Ukraine and Russia as a major historian, Kostomarov's biography provides insight into the complex question of inter-ethnic and international relations in Eastern Europe and in the former Russian and Soviet empires.
Historian, educator, and author Mykola Kostomarov was a leading figure in the Ukrainian national awakening of the nineteenth century, and played an important role in the cultural life of Russia as well. As an ethnographer, he sought to uncover the `mysterious soul? of the Ukrain…
Claimed by both Ukraine and Russia as a major historian, Kostomarov's biography provides insight into the complex question of inter-ethnic and international relations in Eastern Europe and in the former Russian and Soviet empires.
Historian, educator, and author Mykola Kostomarov was a leading figure in the Ukrainian national awakening of the nineteenth century, and played an important role in the cultural life of Russia as well. As an ethnographer, he sought to uncover the `mysterious soul? of the Ukrain…
From the eighteenth century until its collapse in 1917, Imperial Russia--as distinct from Muscovite Russia before it and Soviet Russia after it--officially held that the Russian nation consisted of three branches : Great Russian, Little Russian (Ukrainian), and White Russian (Be…
"From the eighteenth century until its collapse in 1917, Imperial Russia - as distinct from Muscovite Russia before it and Soviet Russia after it - officially held that the Russian nation consisted of three branches: Great Russian, Little Russian (Ukrainian), and White Russian (…