What We Need To Know About Ukraine

Hetman Ivan Mazepa: Cossack and Patron of Ukrainian Culture


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Today's episode is about Ivan Mazepa - one of Ukraine's most famous hetmans - a genius diplomat and a patron of Kyiv's architecture.

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The music at the end of the episode is "Transcendental Etudes, S. 139: No. 4, Mazeppa" by Franz Liszt, which is a symphonic poem about Mazepa. The background music in the episode is "Elegy in Memory of Shevchenko" by the wonderful Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko and "Suite in D Minor, HWV 447: Allemande" by George Frideric Handel.


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What We Need To Know About UkraineBy Sofiia Andrushchak