Mykola Kostomarov and the two Russias. The civilizational struggle for Ukraine
Mykola Kostomarov was born in the Voronezh Governorate in 1817. He studied at Kharkiv University when the city was rising as a center of Ukrainian national identity. He helped found the Brotherhood, a secret society seeking to create an independent or autonomous Ukraine. I am going to call him a Ukrainian historian and writer…
He is known today, above al…