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02.12.2011
 On Nov 9, 2011 the Faculty Club at the University of Toronto hosted the book launch of Andrew Gregorovich’s latest work: Anna Yaroslavna, Queen of France and Princess of Ukraine. The book is dedicated not just to Princess Anna Yaroslavna, (the daughter of King Yaroslav the Wise), who was born in 1032 in Kiev (old spelling), and who became Queen of France in 1051 but to her three sisters, Elizabeth (Queen of Norway), Anastasia (Queen of Hungary) and Agatha (Princess of England and Scotland). This is the first English book written about Queen Anna Yaroslavna and includes all of the 12 known portraits of Queen Anna that are published for the first time in one book. Little is known about Princess Anna. Andrew Gregorovich approached this like a detective story, as he visited London, France and Ukraine, researching materials for the book. I wish I had a book like this when I was growing up and was attending Ukrainian school. Ukrainian history would have been far more exciting and relevant to the world history that I studied in public school or... |
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02.12.2011
 Zenon Kohut, Volodymyr Mezentsev, Volodymyr Kovalenko, and Yurii Sytyi, HET'MANS'KI REZYDENTSII BATURYNA [Hetman Residences in Baturyn]. Compiled by V. Mezentsev (in Ukrainian) 20 pp., 52 colour illustrations $9.95 NOTE: For Web online sales this price has been reduced by $5.00 to $4.95 in order to compensate for the standard minimum online shipping charges. http://tinyurl.com/hetmanski-rezydentsii Funded by the CIUS and the Ucrainica Research Institute of the League of Ukrainian Canadians, this 20-page booklet, featuring 52 colour illustrations, provides a survey of the history of the city of Baturyn, the capital of the Hetman Cossack state in 1669-1708, which attained particular importance and prosperity during the reign of Hetman Ivan Mazepa (1687-1709). The booklet describes the city’s destruction in 1708 by the Russian army during its campaign... |
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02.12.2011
Published by the Lviv Institute of Archeography and Source Studies at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, this book is a comprehensive index of toponyms and ethnonyms appearing in the 10-volume (in 11 books) Ukrainian-language edition of Mykhailo Hrushevsky’s "Istoriia Ukrainy-Rusy" (History of Ukraine-Rus') (as printed in New York by Knyho-Spilka between 1954 and 1958 and reprinted in Kyiv in the early 1990s). This painstakingly compiled index lists all text references found in all 10 volumes of "Istoriia" to countries, regions, cities, towns, and settlements; seas, rivers, lakes, mountains, lowlands, and other geographic regions; city districts, streets, churches, landmarks, and kurhans; as well as tribes, peoples, ethnic groups, and inhabitants of particular cities and settlements. It is an invaluable addition to the 10-volume Ukrainian-language edition of Hrushevsky’s opus magnum. The index was compiled by... |
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09.10.2011
City author Marsha Skrypuch's latest novel is getting plenty of acclaim, including a recent nod from the Canadian Library Association.
Skrypuch found out this week that the book, Stolen Child, is on the short list for the association's children's book of the year award.
The award recognizes a Canadian author of an outstanding book published in Canada in 2010 that appeals to children up to age 12.
The shortlisted books were chosen from among 156 titles.
"The 10 books shortlisted are all wonderful novels and I am honoured to have my novel included in such stellar company," said Skrypuch on Thursday while vacationing in Utah.
The author said the nomination is the third piece of good news she had received in as many... |
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06.09.2011
Wearing traditional Ukrainian embroidered shirts, or vyshyvanka, used to be seen by many as a political act, distinguishing the wearer as a Ukrainian nationalist. Now, 20 years after the country declared independence, embroidered items are making their way into everyday life, decorating a range of items, including socks, caps, belts, book covers and even underwear... |
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30.08.2011
After the war, the Soviets recovered many works of art from Germany, but research shows that Germany was not alone in depriving Ukraine of its cultural heritage. According to Ms Grimsted, the Americans returned to the Soviets about 534,000 cultural items from 1945 to 1948, and about 167,000 of these items originated from Kiev. However, many items never made it home, and instead settled in cultural institutions in Leningrad and Moscow... |
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22.08.2010
This book has been prepared by the employees of the Institute of National Remembrance -- Commission of the Prosecution of Crimes against rht Polish Nation, Security Service of Ukraine, Polish? Ministry of Interior and Administration and the Institute of Political and Ethno-National Studies at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. It presents documents on the famine in Ukraine in the first half of the 1930's, documents created by the Soviet special services, as well as Polish military intelligence and diplomatic services. The volume also holds documents of the Polish police and local government administration repenting on the reactions of Ukrainians living in Poland with respect to the information on the tragic events in Soviet Ukraine... |
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10.04.2010
 Vera Rich was an accomplished translator of Ukrainian and Belarussian literature and poetry. Born Faith Elizabeth Joan in 1936 in Canonbury, North London, but widely known as Vera — the direct Ukrainian translation of Faith — she came into contact with Ukrainian refugees who settled in Britain after the Second World War through her mother’s work with the Red Cross. As a schoolgirl, by now living with her mother and maternal grandparents in their newly built house in Enfield, she saved up pocket money to buy Virgil’s Latin poetry from a secondhand bookshop in Palmers Green. Touring local churches with a Catholic worship group based in Cockfosters, she developed a particular affinity with a Belarussian chapel in Finchley, where Father Ceslaus Sipovich introduced her to the nation’s poetry. A glamorous yet eccentric teenager... |
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06.09.2009
The League of Ukrainian Canadians and the League of Ukrainian Canadian Women together with the Ukrainian Embassy of Ukraine in Canada announce the creation of the LUC-Embassy Mazepa Art Competition Committee/Jury. Its job is to organize and adjudicate an art contest in honour of the Cossack Hetman Ivan Mazepa on the 300th anniversary of his death. The LUC-Embassy Mazepa Art Competition is open to all youth and especially to Ukrainian youth. The committee/jury plans to announce its results and winners of this contest on the 29th of December, 2009. For more information... |
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04.06.2009
The League of Ukrainian Canadians and the League of Ukrainian Canadian Women together with the Embassy of Ukraine in Canada announce the creation of the LUC-Embassy Mazepa Art Competition Committee/Jury. Its task is to organize and adjudicate an art contest in honor of the Cossack Hetman Ivan Mazepa on the 300th anniversary of his death. The LUC-Embassy Mazepa Art Competition is open to all youth. The committee/jury, composed of LUC members, Embassy staff and students, who are members of Ukrainian student clubs and associations, plans to announce the winners of this contest on December 29, 2009... |
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