Ukrainian popular print: "10 commandments for the unmarried" or humor from the old-regime Ukraine

Why did Ukrainian hetmans curry favor with the Turks, and How was life in Turkish Ukraine

In the 17th century, in addition to Russia and Poland, another contender appeared on the territory of modern Ukraine. Turkey intervened in the division, which saw the goal not at all to save Ukrainians from "oppression", but to its own geopolitical benefit. The first to rely on the help of the Turks was Bohdan Khmelnitsky, who asked the Sultan to accept the Zaporozhye army under his patronage. Later, other seekers of identity from the Ukrainian Cossacks turned their eyes to Turkey. It just ended badly

Why Oleg Dal didn't want to act with Marina Neyelova: Offscreen secrets of the "Old, Old Tale"

31 years ago, on February 22, 1989, Nadezhda Kosheverova, a Soviet film director, Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR, creator of the wonderful movie fairy tales "Cinderella", "Shadow", "Tsarevich Prosha", "Nightingale", "Donkey Skin", passed away. One of her most famous works was "The Old, Old Tale" - a film that was released 50 years ago. He became one of the best in the filmography of Oleg Dahl and brought the first popularity to Marina Neyelova. True, this might not have happened, because the actor was kate

How "someone else's age was seized," and Why in the old days there were so many old beggars

Memory is arranged like this: the further the past, the brighter it was, kinder and dearer to the heart. This works not only with individuals, but also with nations. Everyone, for example, is sure that in the old days grandparents were treated with special respect. But the popular print crumbles, it is worth reading the classics of literature and ethnographers: it was not so simple in the old days with the old people

Russian popular print of the 19th century from the tsarist libraries, sold to foreigners by the Bolsheviks for a pittance

More recently, the New York Public Library has digitized 19th century popular prints. They came to the United States during the mass sale of the collections of the imperial libraries by the Bolsheviks in 1930-1935. Thanks to the surviving copies, today you can see a whole layer of Russian folk art

Boris Khmelnitsky and Larisa Galaktionova: Unfinished novel by Robin Hood and his unmarried wife

Boris Khmelnitsky not only played a role in the movie "The Arrows of Robin Hood", he was honest, fair and always ready to help those in need, just like his screen hero. He had many female fans, but he never treated women as a consumer. On the contrary, he opened the whole world to them, every hour giving them new impressions, emotions, feelings. For the last 12 years, Larisa Galaktionova was next to him, who never became his wife