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Subject: HISTORY OF THE UKRAINE-RUSSIA RELATIONS
From: Eugenius
Date: 06 Jun 1998 8:59 AM
HISTORY OF THE UKRAINE-RUSSIA RELATIONSThe word
UKRAINA
(todaysname of the country) appeared in 12th century. The meaning of
theword is "the-inner-country", and has described the inner
territoriesof the Ukrainian empire Kyiv Rus ' (8th-13th century)
withoutcolonies. One of the colonized territories was Moscovia.
Moscow(Moskva) itself was founded in 12th century as one of the
outwardposts of the empire deep in the forests occupied by
nativeFinno-Ugric tribes, the ancestors of the most modern Russians
(80%of the topographic names in the modern central Russia have
theFinno-Ugric roots including the name of the Moskva-river that
means"the dirty water"). After separation from Rus' in 13th century
theterritory of Moscovia became a part of Tatar-Mongol empire -
theGolden Horde.
Moscovia and Rus' were never identical (even in the
medieval Moscowdocuments this difference was made) untill Tsar of
Moscovia Peter Idecided to establish the empire and to redirect
Moscovia expantion tothe West. He brought European manners to Moscovia
by force andstarted an active Europe-oriented Moscow policy. He tried,
as hecalled it, "to hack out the window to Europe" by conducting the
GreatNorthern War (1700-1721) against Sweden and constructing the
newcapital-city of the future empire - St.Petersburg (1703). But
herealized that the "gate to Europe" for Moscovia is situated inUkraine
that always was in the European political, cultural andeconomical
development context. That is why Tsar Peter has chosen thepolicy of
liquidation of Ukrainian independence. But not only that.He decided to
take the history of old Ukrainian empire Kyiv Rus'which was famous in
Europe. In 1721 Peter I gave the Moscovite statea new name: Rossiya
(Engl. Russia), and proclaimed: "now theMoscovite people will be called
the Russian people!" He proclaimedalso that Ukraine now is only a
province of Moscovia. All theMoscovite rulers that came afterwards
have repeated after himincluding Soviet official history and KGB. They
also brought to lifean anti-scientific theory that Ukrainian language
is nothing more buta dialect (!) of Russian, however about 70% of
Ukrainian vocabularyand the pronunciation are different from Russian.
One with theRussian native tongue can't understand Ukrainian.
Now as
a result of Moscow propaganda the most of the Westernhistorians repeat
this myth and the World thinks that there is andthere was no other
peoples and states in Eastern Europe exceptRussian (Moscovite),
however the facts are proving that this conceptis totally untrue...STOLENUKRAIN
IAN ICONS
Unfortunately the list of the stolen and "lost"
Ukrainian culturaland historical treasures consistsnot only of the
following items but dozens of thousends that has beentaken from the
theUkrainian people during the centuries. These are the most
significantproducts of the Ukrainiansoul that have for a long time been
used by other cultures andbrought them high spiritual andalso material
profits. The origin and the history of these objects isforgotten by
majority, onlyspecialists still remember the truth.
This thaumaturgic
and very famous icon is known as one ofthe greatest Russian
(Moscovite)religious and cultural "achivements" and treasures, but it
was simplystolen in 1169 byMoscovite Prince Andrei ("Bogoliubski") of
Suzdal' during the waragainst Rus'-Ukraine.That time he destroyed and
plundered Kyiv, it's cathidrals andmonasterys. He took away thisicon
from the robbed church of Vyshhorod (a town not far from Kyiv)and
brought at Suzdal'.Later it has been moved to Vladimir, and received a
new name -"Vladimirskaya" instead ofVyshhorods'ka. Now it is stored in
Moscow Kremlin.
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Subject: Wuh? Huh? Icons!!!
From: Volodimir
Date: 05 May 2000 12:16 AM
I am deeply concerned that many "Icon" Art has been misrepresented as
Ukrainian when in fact it is Byzantine.The Ukrainians of the Rurikid
Regime copied whole-sale a great quantity of the Icons from
Constantinople after their conversion.A Similar analogy would be to
claim the Greek Artifactsin the British Museum are British because they
reside inthe British Museum. This is a matter of Culture/HeritageEnvy
on the part of the Ukraine.As an avid reader of this web site I was
deeply disturbed by the historical inaccuracies portrayed by the the
preceding letter.F.Y.I. the Ukraine was known as the "oukraina" (border
land) always in relation to something else--Poland (Ipatye Chronicle,
1189) or Moscow (Pskov I Chronicle, 1481), and not as the Ukraine
proper until later. Ukrainians re-write Ukrainian history to exclude
others to generate a non-existant leniage/history for itself.
