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...that during the Shuliavka worker's uprising of 1905 Shuliavka neighborhood in Kiev to clean the area of any resistors to their movement?
...that Vasyl Krychevsky Ukrainian artist , designed the state emblem of the Ukrainian National Republic at the request of Mykhailo Hrushevskyi ?
...that the Emperor of Russia, Alexander III bought the art of Ukrainian realist painter Volodymyr Orlovsky ...that Swedish–Ukrainian relations Charles XII was named protector of Ukraine in the first Ukrainian constitution of 1710 and that Hetman Pylyp Orlyk lived in Sweden 1716–1720?
...that the Russian composers Peter Tchaikovsky , Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov , and Serge Rachmaninoff used Ukrainian folk melodies ...that Polish–Ukrainian relations fall of communism , and both countries now have a strong strategic relationship?
...that the Ukrainian Baroque architecture pictured Western European Baroque in that its designs were more constructivist, had more moderate ornamentation, and were simpler in form?
...that according to Ukrainian folklore , the girl who finds Chervona Ruta Red Rue " in Ukrainian , on the Ivan Kupala Day , will be happy in love?
...that the 11th century Duke Yaropolk Izyaslavich Eastern Orthodox saint ?
...that in 1956 the Pidhirtsi Castle Lviv Oblast , Ukraine burned for three weeks costing US$ 12 million in damages?
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