place
the Ukraine
also: Ukraine
The wide, still steppe of southern Russia along the Dnieper; the setting of Ostap's tale of the Cossack revolt against the Polish Pans.
Reading notes
- The Book of Images §52 the Ukraine
The lands where Charles XII of Sweden was broken: his defeat by Peter the Great at Poltava (1709), in the Ukraine, ended Swedish dominance in the north.
- Stories of God §63 the Ukraine
The wide, still steppe of southern Russia along the Dnieper, the setting of Ostap's tale.