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Ukraine Museum etiquette is a lesson in economics as well as viewing
Step inside a state-owned Ukrainian museum and you may find yourself in total darkness. Move too quickly through one of the museum exhibit rooms and you may be retrieved like a recalcitrant student by a guide. Museum etiquette is an international language certainly but in Ukraine decorum has as much to do with the state of the country's economy as it does a way of absorbing the art on view.
FeaturesLight of a Monastic Life Still Shines Underground in Ukraine
Light a single candle. Breathe the cold, damp air. Perhaps say a prayer. Begin your descent into monastic history. Founded in 1057, the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra cave labyrinth is merely a small part of a compound of gold-domed churches, iconoclastic art, and one of the oldest monasteries in Eastern Europe.
FeaturesUkraine unfolds along the Dnipro River
Alternately spelled Dneiper, Dnipro, and Dneper, the third longest river in Europe lowing bisects the country of Ukraine and is a study in contrasts, geography, and politics. Often described by its monikers, Right Bank and Left Bank like the River Seine in Paris, this river is considered the birthplace of Ukrainian civilization and the Kievan Rus trade routes. Cossacks first began their independent governments on the river's largest islands and through the centuries, the Dnipro River, (in Ukrainian) is considered the "holy river" of Ukraine.
FeaturesFestivities Multiply since Ukrainian Independence: Part 3
This is the third and final article in our series of articles about Ukrainian Festivals. The focus of this feature article is the modern-day "Cultural Festivals of Ukraine". Ukrainian cultural festivals abound and are often celebrated in conjunction with national holidays. Other festivals like the Hutsul Annual International Festival strike at the heart of Ukrainian culture and provide visitors with quite an education. Several thousand Ukrainians celebrate the culture of the Hutsul people living in the Carpathian region at this annual festival.
FeaturesLychakivsky Cemetery: A History Book of Stone
In death, Ukrainian ancestors are believed to reside in the fields, orchards, forests, and the skies of their homeland. The spirits assure a good harvest. As a gesture of thanks and to bring good fortune in the coming year, families gather grain from the fields to reside in a corner of the house during the Christmas Eve meal. For Ukrainians death is not simply a cold and lonely end to life. The dead are merely departed. No where is this sentiment more accurately displayed than in Lviv's Lychakivsky Cemetary.
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