Portal:Ukraine/Did you know

...that Ostap Veresai, a 19th century blind kobzar from Ukraine, performed at the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia?
...that Taras Fedorovych, a 17th century Cossack leader, led a Cossack and peasant uprising over the issue of the Cossack register?
...that in 1057, Saint Anthony of Pechersk singled-handedly dug out the Near Caves in Kiev, Ukraine part of Kiev Pechersk Lavra?
...that for organizing a revolt on an Ottoman slave galley and freeing Christian slaves, Hetman Ivan Sulyma received a medal from Pope Paul V?

...that the clocks on the Great Lavra Belltower have only stopped once during their existence: when the nearby Dormition Cathedral of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra was blown up during the Second World War?
...that the Ukrainian Catholic University is the first Catholic university to be opened and operated by an Eastern Rite Catholic Church?
...that a recent fire in the open air Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine (picture) was caused by an arson, set to cover up the theft of a valuable collection of the eighteenth-century cassones exhibited in the burned building?