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A Podcast about Ukrainian History with a Spot of Travel
What does Lufthansa, Picasso and the Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Building have in common? They all have links to Mykhailo Boychuk - Ukraine's...
While officially founded in 1256, Lviv has been around since the 5th century. It's importance to Ukrainian history has been due to its trade...
Ukraine was a founding member of the United Nations. It really didn't do much when the Soviet Union was around, but since 1991 it has been o...
Kharkiv is Ukraine's second city - second largest, second populous but certainly not the so-called "young city" that Soviet myths like to fa...
The Soviet-Afghan War begin in 1979 and lasted almost ten years. Ukrainians made up of 25% of the Soviet Armed Forces while it fought in Afg...
When did the capital of Ukraine become established? How many myths are associated with it's founding? Who actually founded it because there...
Dmytro Vyshnevetsky "Baida" was the first Hetman of Ukraine in the 16th century. Kirillo Razumovsky was the last Hetman of Ukraine in the 18...
In the 100th episode of Wandering the Edge, Christina Paschyn, director and producer of Etched in Memory discusses the complicated history o...
The modern Ukrainian currency is the hryvnia, but it is older than Russia! What was the hryvnia and how did it come to be Ukraine's currency...
There were thousands of Ukrainians who refused to be repatriated back to the Soviet Union after the end of the Second World War in Europe. T...
The Ukrainian Helsinki Group was filled with varied dissident Ukrainians who wanted Ukrainian independence, self determination and the safeg...
The Ukrainian Insurgent Army had hundreds of thousands of soldiers and supporters but how did they win their battles and how did they loose?...
The Ukrainian Insurgent Army was an underground Ukrainian guerrilla army that was active during the Second World War and fought against both...
Did you know the Soviet Union's first show trial was in Ukraine? It happened in 1930 in Kharkiv against the Union for the Liberation of Ukra...
Ukraine and Ukrainians have used political assassinations to push their agenda into the spotlight or protest grievances against Ukrainians....
What is "soft power" and how did/does Russia use it not only in Ukraine but among other so-called "Western" countries? This question along w...
Why is Mykhailo Hrushevsky so venerated among Ukrainian historians? And why are his histories so important to Ukrainian historiography? And...
In 1947, the Polish communist state internally displaced the rest of their 150,000 Ukrainian minority. They spattered them among the now emp...
What was the good, the bad and the ugly about Ukraine's first independence in 1918? How did it begin and why did it fail? And who was respon...
Who were the UPA 4? The 4 women of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army who received 25 years imprisonment for their roles in the Ukrainian undergro...
During Ukraine's first independence drive, the Ukrainian army attempted to break out through the Monarchist and Bolshevik fronts, these two...
Ukraine's primary source on our Medieval history is the Primary Chronicle. But is it a primary source and what is it exactly? Who wrote it?...
Why was Volodymyr the Great - great? How did a legalized bastard become the leader of Europe's largest kingdom at that time? And how did he...
What was the Prosvita (Enlightenment) Society that was founded in Lviv in 1868? Why was it the single most important Ukrainian society to ba...
The 1919 Paris Peace talks in Versailles was supposed to be end of war in Europe. But in just 20 years, a world war would begin anew - one o...
Ukraine's history has not only been appropriated by Russia for centuries, but its treasures has also been stolen or destroyed by imperial Ru...
What's the history of vodka and vodka distilling? What is so unique to Ukrainian vodka? And what makes it taste so good? And how did this cu...
Ukraine voted him the most influential Ukrainian in 2008 but why was Yaroslav named "the Wise"? How much of it was his legal reform and how...
Ukraine has suffered from 3 major famines in the 20th century: 1921-1923, the Holodomor of 1932-1933 and the post-war famine of 1946-1947. A...
Ivan Kotliarevsky (1769-1838) was the first modern Ukrainian writer who wrote in actual Ukrainian. His parody "Eneida" followed some rowdy U...
The Kholodny Yar area of Ukraine is a beautiful ancient forest filled with whimsy - but also a long history of rebellion and insurrection. F...
Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky was a powerful figure in Ukrainian history and an influence in European politics in the second half of the 1600's....
Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1595-1657) could have been a minor Cossack noble and a small footnote in Ukrainian history until some soap opera level d...
In this interview with journalist and activist Julian Hayda, we discuss the Ukrainian funerary customs and traditions - those Ukrainians obs...
Sviatoslav was the son of a warrior king and a smart queen who loved a good fight (or war) but not so much the actual ruling bit of being a...
The Revolution of Dignity began as the pro-EU Euromaidan protest in November 2013. It then transformed into a revolution that wanted to chan...
Ivan Franko (1856-1916) is considered the third in Ukraine's literary pantheon. He was a poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalis...
Thousands of Ukrainians were imprisoned in the GULAG system of the Soviet Union. And many of them were involved in the numerous GULAG uprisi...
How much do you know about your family tree? Well, there are some Ukrainian families that can pinpoint where and from whom they came from. T...
Ukraine is known as Europe's breadbasket - primarily because of the type of soil that naturally occurs there. This episode looks at the hist...
Ukraine declared independence from the USSR on 24 August 1991. But it took years of inter-Soviet disfunction and terror to finally thrust in...
The January 29-30, 1918 Batty of Kruty pitted young Ukrainian soldiers against a larger attacking Red Army. Ukraine only just declared indep...
Who was Petro Sahaidachny and why is he considered, by some, to be Ukraine's greatest Hetman? Well, he was a 17th century Ukrainian politica...
The second part of episodes dedicated to sciency stuff! Who were some of the most influential Ukrainian scientists in the twentieth century?...
Ukrainians are pretty smart - so smart we have scientists! The first world-renown scientist is Yuriy Drohobych - the once rector of the Univ...
In this episode, we talk to Nazar Volynets, a veteran of the 24th Assault Battalion ("Aidar") of the Ukrainian Armed Forces who was a reconn...
What is the feast day of the Intercession of the Theotokos? How did a military defeat in far off Constantinople result in a religious feast...
Alexander Dovzhenko is Ukraine's greatest screenwriter, producer and director. Ukraine's film institute is named after him. He was a genius...
Ukraine has had a long history of embracing democratic institutions - beginning with the viche in medieval Kyivan-Rus, the Cossack rada that...
A look at the theatric history of the Ukrainian stage: Marko Kropyvnytskyi as Ukraine's greatest directors, playwrights and actors who playe...