These are Industrious. courageous. and gifted people. The art. music. and literature of the Ukrainian people have enriched the cultural life of our country. The people of the eastern and southern Ukraine are for the most part descended from Ruthene immigrants from the north who. to escape the Polish and Lithuanian princes and nobles who were making life hard for them. went to the border territory. an area run by the Lithuanians. where they could live in free communities. But after 1667 the Russians controlled the Ukraine east of the Dnieper River. and then the Ukrainians were divided among Russians. Poles. and Turks.
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