• Aleksandr Drankov
  http://wn.com/Aleksandr_Drankov
• André Andrejew
  André Andrejew (January 21, 1887 – March 13, 1967) was one of the most important art directors of the international cinema of the twentieth century. He had a distinctive, innovative style. His décors were both expressive and realistic. French writer Lucie Derain described Andrejew at the peak of his career as "an artist of the grand style, blessed with a vision of lyrical quality." Edith C. Lee wrote recently: "Believing in creative freedom rather than academic reconstruction, André Andrejew fulfilled the 20th century's notion of the romantic, individualistic artist. The unusual titillated his imagination."
  http://wn.com/André_Andrejew
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  Bohdan Stupka
  Bohdan Stupka (; born August 27, 1941) is a popular Ukrainian actor. He was born in Kulykiv, which is in Lviv oblast (province), Ukraine.
  http://wn.com/Bohdan_Stupka
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  Enver Hoxha
  (pronounced , 16 October 1908 11 April 1985) was the leader of Albania from the end of World War II until his death in 1985, as the First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania. He also served as Prime Minister of Albania from 1944 to 1954, Minister of Defense from 1944 to 1953, Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1946 to 1953, Chairman of the Democratic Front from 1945 to his death, and as Commander-in-Chief of the Albanian armed forces from 1944 to his death.
  http://wn.com/Enver_Hoxha
• 
  Ernest Hemingway
  Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American author and journalist. His distinctive writing style, characterized by economy and understatement, influenced 20th-century fiction, as did his life of adventure and public image. He produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Hemingway's fiction was successful because the characters he presented exhibited authenticity that resonated with his audience. Many of his works are classics of American literature. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works during his lifetime; a further three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction works were published .
  http://wn.com/Ernest_Hemingway
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  Eugene Hütz
  Eugene Hütz (, Yevhen Hudz′; born Yevheniy Oleksandrovych Nikolayev Simonov, September 6, 1972) is a Ukrainian-born singer and composer, most notable as the frontman of the critically-acclaimed New York Gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello. Hütz is also a DJ and actor.
  http://wn.com/Eugene_Hütz
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  J. Lee Thompson
  John Lee Thompson (1 August 1914 - 30 August 2002), better known as J. Lee Thompson, was an English film director, active in England and Hollywood.
  http://wn.com/J_Lee_Thompson
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  Jane Smiley
  Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist.
  http://wn.com/Jane_Smiley
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  Leoš Janáček
  Leoš Janáček () (baptised Leo Eugen Janáček) (July 3, 1854 – August 12, 1928), was a Czech composer, musical theorist, folklorist, publicist and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and all Slavic folk music to create an original, modern musical style. Until 1895 he devoted himself mainly to folkloristic research and his early musical output was influenced by contemporaries such as Antonín Dvořák. His later, mature works incorporate his earlier studies of national folk music in a modern, highly original synthesis, first evident in the opera Jenůfa, which was premiered in 1904 in Brno. The success of Jenůfa (often called the "Moravian national opera") at Prague in 1916 gave Janáček access to the world's great opera stages. Janáček's later works are his most celebrated. They include the symphonic poem Sinfonietta, the oratorial Glagolitic Mass, the rhapsody Taras Bulba, string quartets, other chamber works and operas. He is considered to rank with Antonín Dvořák and Bedřich Smetana, as one of the most important Czech composers.
  http://wn.com/Leoš_Janáček
• Liudmila Gatagova
  http://wn.com/Liudmila_Gatagova
• Magdalena Mielcarz
  Magdalena Mielcarz (born March 3, 1978, Warsaw) is a Polish actress and model.
  http://wn.com/Magdalena_Mielcarz
• Mykola Lysenko
  Mykola Vitaliiovych Lysenko (, – ) was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist.
  http://wn.com/Mykola_Lysenko
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  Nikolai Gogol
  Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (; ; ) (, – ) was a Ukrainian-born Russian novelist, humourist, and dramatist.
  http://wn.com/Nikolai_Gogol
• 
  Poles
  The Polish people, or Poles ( , singular Polak) are the inhabitants of Poland and Polish emigrants irrespective of their ancestry. Their religion is predominantly Roman Catholic. As a nation, they are bounded by the Polish language, which belongs to the Lechitic subgroup of west slavic languages of Central Europe. A wide-ranging Polish diaspora exists throughout Western and Eastern Europe, the Americas and Australia. Polish citizens live predominantly in Poland.
  http://wn.com/Poles
• Salman Khan
  Salman Khan (, lang-ur|, pronounced ; born Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan on 27 December 1965) is an Indian film actor who appears in Bollywood films.
  http://wn.com/Salman_Khan
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  Steve Vai
  Steven Siro "Steve" Vai (born June 6, 1960) is a three time Grammy Award-winning Italian-American rock guitarist, songwriter, vocalist and producer. After starting his professional career as a music transcriptionist for Frank Zappa, Vai recorded and toured in Zappa's band for two years, from 1980 to 1982. The guitarist began a solo career in 1983 and has released 13 solo albums as of 2008. Apart from his work with Frank Zappa, Vai has also recorded and toured with Public Image Ltd., Alcatrazz, David Lee Roth, and Whitesnake. Vai has been a regular touring member of the G3 Concert Tour which began in 1996. In 1999 Vai started his own record label, Favored Nations, intending to showcase, as Vai describes, "...artists that have attained the highest performance level on their chosen instruments."
  http://wn.com/Steve_Vai
• Tatar
  http://wn.com/Tatar
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  Tony Curtis
  Tony Curtis (June 3, 1925 – September 29, 2010) was an American film actor whose career spanned six decades, but had his greatest popularity during the 1950s and early 1960s. He acted in over 60 films in roles covering a wide range of genres, from light comedy to serious drama. In his later years, Curtis made numerous television appearances.
  http://wn.com/Tony_Curtis
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  Ukrainians
  Ukrainians (, Ukrayintsi, ) are an East Slavic ethnic group primarily living in Ukraine, or more broadly—citizens of Ukraine (who may or may not be ethnic Ukrainians). Some 200 years ago and times prior to that, Ukrainians were usually referred to and known as Ruthenians (). Around 45 million people identify with the Ukrainian ethnicity, an ethnos that today, due to centuries of foreign rule and distinct periods of Polonization and Russification, is significantly less homogenous than neighboring ethnic groups. Many ethnic Ukrainians, in addition to having been descended from Ruthenian stock, maintain various other ancestries, such as Russian, Belarussian, Polish, Greek, German, Romanian, and/or Jewish.
  http://wn.com/Ukrainians
• Vilho Harle
  http://wn.com/Vilho_Harle
• Vladimir Bortko
  Vladimir Vladimirovich Bortko (; May 7, 1946, Moscow Soviet Union) — is a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter.
  http://wn.com/Vladimir_Bortko
• Václav Talich
  Václav Talich () (May 28, 1883 – March 16, 1961) was a Czech conductor, violinist and pedagogue.
  http://wn.com/Václav_Talich
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  World War I
  World War I was a military conflict centered on Europe that began in the summer of 1914. The fighting ended in late 1918. This conflict involved all of the world's great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (centred around the Triple Entente) and the Central Powers. More than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilized in one of the largest wars in history. More than 9 million combatants were killed, due largely to great technological advances in firepower without corresponding ones in mobility. It was the second deadliest conflict in history.
  http://wn.com/World_War_I
• 
  Yul Brynner
  Yul Brynner (, Julij Borisovič Briner; July 11, 1920October 10, 1985) was a Russian-born actor of stage and film. He was best known for his portrayal of Mongkut, king of Siam, in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I on both stage and screen, as well as Rameses II in the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille film The Ten Commandments and Chris Adams in The Magnificent Seven. Brynner was noted for his deep, rich voice and for his shaven head, which he maintained as a personal trademark after adopting it for his role in The King and I. He was also a photographer and the author of two books.
  http://wn.com/Yul_Brynner

• Dniester River
  http://wn.com/Dniester_River
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  Dubno
  Dubno () is a city located on the Ikva River in the Rivne Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of Dubno Raion (district), the city itself is also designated as a separate raion within the oblast. It was home to the Cold War facility Dubno air base.
  http://wn.com/Dubno
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  Kamianets-Podilskyi
  Kamianets-Podilskyi (, translit. Kam’ianets’-Podil’s’kyi; also referred to as Kamyanets-Podilsky or Kamenets-Podolsky; see Nomenclature section below for more names) is a city located on the Smotrych River in western Ukraine, to the north-east of Chernivtsi. Formerly the administrative center of the Khmelnytskyi Oblast (, translit. Khmelnyts’ka oblast’), the city is now the administrative center of the Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion (district) within the Khmelnytsky Oblast (province), after the administrative center of the oblast was moved from the city of Kamianets-Podilskyi to the city of Khmelnytskyi in 1941. The city itself is also designated as a separate raion within the oblast.
  http://wn.com/Kamianets-Podilskyi
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  Khotyn
  Khotyn (; see other names) is a city in Chernivtsi Oblast of western Ukraine, and is the administrative center of Khotyn Raion within the oblast, and is located south-west of Kamianets-Podilskyi. According to the 2001 Ukrainian census, it has a population of 11,124. In earlier times, the town was part of the Principality of Moldavia (1359–1812), although due to its fortress, at times it was in Polish, Turkish and Austrian hands,, then it was part of the Bessarabia Governorate of the Russian Empire (1812–1917), Moldavian Democratic Republic (1917–1918), Romania (1918–1940, 1941–1944), and the USSR (1940–1941, 1944–1991).
  http://wn.com/Khotyn
• Krakow
  http://wn.com/Krakow
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  Poland
  Poland (), officially the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north. The total area of Poland is , making it the 69th largest country in the world and the 9th largest in Europe. Poland has a population of over 38 million people, which makes it the 34th most populous country in the world and the sixth most populous member of the European Union, being its most populous Slavic member.
  http://wn.com/Poland
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  Ukraine
  Ukraine ( ; , transliterated: , ), with its area of 603,628 km2, is the second largest country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by the Russian Federation to the east and northeast, Belarus to the northwest, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to the west, Romania and Moldova to the southwest, and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south and southeast respectively.
  http://wn.com/Ukraine
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  Warsaw
  Warsaw ( ; see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population as of June 2009 was estimated at 1,711,466, and the Warsaw metropolitan area at approximately 2,785,000. The city area is , with an agglomeration of (Warsaw Metro Area Obszar Metropolitalny Warszawy). Warsaw is the 9th largest city in the European Union by population.
  http://wn.com/Warsaw

• 1842
• 2005
• Abbey beer
• Ada Rogovtseva
• Aleksandr Drankov
• Alexis Granovsky
• André Andrejew
• Antisemitism
• archetype
• Bernard Herrmann
• Bohdan Stupka
• composer
• Cossacks
• Darkwing Duck
• Dead Souls
• Dnieper
• Dnieper River
• Dniester River
• Dubno
• Dubno Castle
• Enver Hoxha
• Ernest Hemingway
• Eugene Hütz
• Fire Garden
• František Neumann
• Franz Waxman
• Gogol Bordello
• Hetman
• Historical
• Igor Petrenko
• Imperial Russia
• Internet Archive
• J. Lee Thompson
• Jane Smiley
• Kamianets-Podilskyi
• Khotyn
• Kiev
• Krakow
• Leoš Janáček
• Liudmila Gatagova
• Magdalena Mielcarz
• Mykola Lysenko
• Nikolai Gogol
• nom de guerre
• Novel
• November Uprising
• October 4
• Panslavism
• Poland
• Poles
• romantic nationalism
• romanticism
• Russian Empire
• Russian language
• Salman Khan
• Schedryk
• Steve Vai
• Taras Bulba (opera)
• Tatar
• Taurus Bulba
• The Rebel Son
• Tony Curtis
• Ukraine
• Ukrainians
• Veer (film)
• Vilho Harle
• Vladimir Bortko
• Václav Talich
• Warsaw
• World War I
• Yul Brynner
• Zaporizhia
• Zaporizhian Sich
• Zaporozhian Cossacks
• Zaporozhian Sich

Bulba, Taras Filmography

• Titanes en el ring (1973) (actor, plays Himself)