![]() ![]() He sketches the land and its inhabitants via the few descriptions that survive with us today. They have created something beautiful out of the ugliest of conditions.Īuthor Serhii Plokhy introduces the reader to the Ukrainian region via the farthest reaches of the historical record, going back to Herodotus himself. Yet despite all that Ukrainians have managed to maintain their ethnic and linguistic pride and forge a nation out of the scraps of inter-generational war and aggression. ![]() “The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine” is simply a beautifully written book about a beautiful people who have suffered thousands of years of unimaginable atrocities and hardships. Ukrainians posses an indomitable spirit!.There were many different Ukrainian dialects from Ruthenian all the way to the Belarusian border.Ukraine has been fragmented into eastern and western halves historically.Ukrainians often preferred the Tatars and others over alliances with the Rus’ nations. ![]()
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