Українські прикраси / Ukrainian jewelry

Traditional Ukrainian national adornments are a priceless source of historical studies of the Ukrainian people. The history of Ukraine and its people had been continuously destroyed, rewritten, forbidden, concealed or simply stolen because other neighbouring countries had been forcing us to lose our national identity. The memory of our nation was erased by means of destroying our language, religion, education, public activity and other spheres of life. The farther from Kyiv, and eventually from any rural area, the people lived, the more they emerged with other culture, enriched it and forgot where they came from. In the situation that was happening at that time, Ukrainian national traditional adornments were a great and a more objective source of studying history, culture and the way of life of our ancestors than written sources. They confirm the Ukrainian origin of numerous historical processes and cultural assets as well as depict the history of separate territories more deeply. T...