As the saying goes: “If you were to list all the ways Kharkiv was first in the Russian Empire or Ukraine, your tongue would fall out and your vocal cords would snap.” I don’t know about others, but to be honest, I lost count a long time ago. How about you?)

The problem with modern Kharkiv is that there’s no need to invent stories or legends about it. After all, all it takes is to devote just a few hours each day to this city we love so dearly and cherish so deeply—while working on documents—to eventually realize that we don’t know Kharkiv at all…

In this case, the people of Kharkiv are like a fierce dragon sitting on untold treasures (unique achievements, facts), but one that is diligently hiding them deep within its mountain and stubbornly refusing to share them with the outside world…

Well, now to the point. In 1817, in the very best city on planet Earth, a professor at the Imperial University—Fyodor Vasilyevich Pilger—published a magazine. Pilger, who was German by nationality, named his brainchild “Ukrainian Householder.” However, after the second issue was published, government censors gleefully shut down the magazine. For they were truly upset by the criticism directed at those in power and their “activities.” It would seem like a perfectly ordinary situation for that time, were it not for one important “but”…

The fact is that the magazine *Ukrainian Householder*, published in Kharkiv, was the first veterinary journal in the entire vast Russian Empire…

Well, Professor Pilger himself became famous in Kharkiv not only for his magazine, but also for his playful antics…