Tag: Ivan Franko

The interesting history of Lviv. Lviv has many unofficial titles; people call it the capital of Western Ukraine and, more often, the cultural capital of the country. It has the largest number of historical monuments in Ukraine, and Lviv invariably ap ...

Ivan Franko one of the first realists in Ukrainian literature. As Taras Shevchenko is considered the founder of Ukrainian literature of Tsarist Russia, so Ivan Franko (1856-1916) was the premier Ukrainian writer of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (which ...

Vyshyvanka is used as a talisman to protect the person wearing. “Vyshyvanka” is a modern word for a traditional shirt with embroidery. In olden times, these shirts were made of hand-woven linen and decorated with embroideries characteristic not o ...