Category: Books and press

02.08.2017 / Іvan Ponomarenko

A mummy for the price of a can of paint and a rooster for $33,000

The 19th-century foreign press contains many remarkable stories related to Kharkiv, stories that have since…

24.04.2017 / Іvan Ponomarenko

Today, let’s remember another writer from Kharkiv who has been completely forgotten. After the 1917…

10.03.2017 / Anton Bondarev

To this day, Moisey Dikansky remains one of the most enigmatic figures in Kharkiv’s architectural…

30.11.2016 / Anton Bondarev

In the mid-19th and early 20th centuries, a considerable number of magazines and newspapers were…

22.09.2016 / Anton Bondarev

Recently, one of the largest international online ride-sharing services, called “BlaBlaCar,” has become very popular…

03.09.2016 / Іvan Ponomarenko

We have already discussed Kharkiv as seen through the eyes of foreigners in a 1917…

07.07.2016 / Іvan Ponomarenko

In April 1917, an interesting book for merchants and businesspeople was published in London; it…

01.06.2016 / Іvan Ponomarenko

Numerous works have been written about the contribution of Izmail Sreznevsky, an outstanding philologist and…

16.05.2016 / Іvan Ponomarenko

During the “Book Arsenal” exhibition, held in April 2016 in Kyiv, the A. Dovzhenko National…

10.04.2016 / Anton Bondarev

The village of Vasilevka lies on the banks of the Grun River in the Lebedinsky…