Ludmilla Pavlichenko was an officer in the Red Army and a prominent sniper during World War 2. Born in 1916 in Bila Tserkva, a town in central Ukraine, Ludmilla’s family moved to Kiev when she was 14. She was a very competitive child from a young age, and she would not let boys outdo her …
Princess Olga (also known as “Olha” – Ukrainian, “Ольга”) is a revered historical and legendary figure among Eastern Slavs. Much about her exact history is debatable and unknown, due to the imprecisions of the Primary Chronicle, the source from which most of Princess Olga’s history is derived. The medieval Slavic matriarch was born in 890, …