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Kateryna Bilokur, the Genial Self-Taught Painter Who Loved Flowers More Than Life

Nov 25, 2024 | kyivpost.com | Andriy Bondar

Flowers filled all her big heart and all her dismal life. She must have had the soul of a bee, seeing the world in different, brighter colors and flying from flower to flower to partake of their divine gift. She painted flowers as long as she lived, bringing out the unfading beauty of the generous Ukrainian land, and her name – Kateryna Bilokur – stands out like a beautiful flower among the best Ukrainian folk artists.
The Screaming Minks hope for a rugby revival

Oct 7, 2024 | ringtumphi.net | Andriy Bondar

As the Screaming Minks Rugby Football Club kicks off their 59th season, players said they have their sights set on the state championship. The Minks stand at a 1-2 record thus far into the season, beating Emory and Henry University and falling short to James Madison University and No. 13 Christendom College. The Minks serve as a hybrid between a club sport and varsity sport, making them much different from other clubs.
Vasyl Sukhomlynsky, the Great Ukrainian Teacher Who Gave His Heart to Children

Oct 1, 2024 | kyivpost.com | Andriy Bondar

Vasyl Sukhomlynsky’s intellect, kind heart and immense love of children made him a brilliant teacher and one of Ukraine’s hundred most famous persons. He was a school principal in a remote village, but the fame of his name spread across and beyond Ukraine and his valuable pedagogical experience is now taught to students at colleges and universities and actively used by teachers in this and other countries. His works have been published in dozens of languages in as many as 26 million copies.
The ‘Tryzub’ - Ukraine's Proud Trident Symbol

Aug 23, 2024 | kyivpost.com | Andriy Bondar

The Tryzub symbol has featured in Ukrainian lands since the Middle Ages, as the powerful state of Kyivan Rus flourished here. A trident symbol has evident in cultures from Europe to India since time immemorial, carried by Poseidon, Neptune, Shiva, Vishnu, and other deities. Plato said a golden trident and azure garments were worn by the kings of Atlantis in his Timaeus written between 360 and 355 BC.
Blue and Yellow - Colors of Ukrainian Statehood

Jul 24, 2024 | kyivpost.com | Andriy Bondar

We instantly recognize many countries by their flags: the United States’ Stars and Stripes, the UK’s Union Jack, New Zealand’s Southern Cross, Lebanon by the Cedar tree, Israel by David’s Star, and Japan’s red circle on a white background. Ukraine, too, has its recognizable national symbols: the blue-and-yellow flag and the Golden “Tryzub,” or Trident. Follow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official.
Oleksandr Bohomolets, the Divinely Gifted Doctor

Jun 1, 2024 | kyivpost.com | Andriy Bondar

He founded the national school of pathophysiology and headed the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. He was a member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences and vice-president of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He founded and headed the Institute of Experimental Biology and Pathology and the Institute of Clinical Physiology at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.
Maria Prymachenko: Beyond Folk Art

May 26, 2024 | kyivpost.com | Andriy Bondar

The exhibition “A Tiger Came into the Garden” by Maria Prymachenko (1909-1997), an icon of Ukrainian culture whose work is a significant part of Ukrainian heritage, is currently on display at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. Kyiv Post interviewed Szymon Maliborski, a curator at the Museum of Modern Art, who helped put the exhibition together. The show is open for visitors until June 30, 2024, at the Museum on the Vistula.
Kvitka Cisyk, the Singing Flower of Ukraine

Apr 4, 2024 | kyivpost.com | Andriy Bondar

Her name, Kvitka, is Ukrainian for “flower.” And her brief life was like a flower that blossomed full of fragrance and faded too early for the world to appreciate her beautiful, touching voice. Dmytro Pavlychko, one of Ukraine’s best-known poets, whose short poem “Two Colors”later became a very popular song, said that no one had sung it better than she had.
Shevchenko and Aldridge: Black and White Artistic Brothers in Arms Against Slavery

Mar 9, 2024 | kyivpost.com | Bohdan Nahaylo |Regina Filonenko |Andriy Bondar |Jeremy Dirac

From the Editors: March 9 Marks the 210th anniversary of Ukraine’s greatest poet and architect of its modern national identity –Taras Shevchenko. We are therefore reprinting an article by our Chief Editor that covers a little-known but very illuminating episode in his life. A legendary Afro-American actor in the middle of the nineteenth century flees slavery and meets on the other side of the world Ukraine’s leading poet and recent political prisoner who had earlier been freed from serfdom.
Ukraine’s Femmes Fatales

Mar 8, 2024 | kyivpost.com | Regina Filonenko |Andriy Bondar |Stash Luczkiw |Bohdan Nahaylo

Paris was one of the world’s leading centers of cultural and intellectual life for much of the modern period. But did you know that among the women that became muses, lovers or wives of some of the greatest artists and intellectuals of their day associated with the French capital, several of the leading femme fatales were from Ukraine. They have even been immortalized in their works.