A map of Austria-Hungary in 1920, showing railroads, canals, and submarine telegraph lines. This map shows the partition of the Austro-Hungarian territories after WWI, showing the new boundaries established by the Treaty of Saint...

A map of the former Austria-Hungary after the Treaty of Versailles following WWI, showing pre-war and post-war boundary changes. The map shows the new boundaries of Czechoslovakia and Jugoslavia, the losses to Poland, Ukraine, Romania,...

A city plan of Odessa, Ukraine, from 1903 showing the shoreline of the Black Sea, the major thoroughfares, railroads and railroad stations, the harbors on Odessa Bay, churches, hospitals, military installations, cemeteries, the botanical...

A map of European Russia and the Caucasia at the end of World War I, showing province boundaries at the time, and the conjectural boundaries of the new states at the time the map was made given in red outline. These new states include...

The BBC provides a profile of the man who will lead Ukraine through "radical political change." His background and political aspirations are noted. 1/2005

The BBC provides a profile of the man who will lead Ukraine through "radical political change." His background and political aspirations are noted. 1/2005

This site from the Library of Congress gives an account of Stalin's systematic elimination of Ukrainian nationalism and forced collectivization that resulted in the loss of millions of lives from 1932-1933.

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953 CE) wrote his first opera when he was twelve-years-old. One of his most famous works is "Peter and the Wolf." Use this site to read a biography and listen to his music using RealAudio or Windows Media Player.

This is a map depicting the siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War.

A map of the battlefield at Balaclava.

A map showing Sebastopol, site of the Siege of Sebastopol which took place in 1854 to 1855.

Map of the Crimean seaport, including sites for the Battle of Inkerman and the Battle of Tchernaya, the Russian fortifications, the French and English points of attack, and the sites of two sunken vessels near the harbor mouth.

Map of the theatre of the Crimean War in 1854-1855 between the Russian Empire and the allied forces of the French, British, Turk, and Kingdom of Sardinia.

Ukranian town with church