The Crimea is a peninsula of towering peaks, balmy seas and a colourful population. The Russian Tsars and Soviet elite spent summers here, in its Cold War heyday when it was a workers’ paradise, and with its Mediterranean-style climate it’s still the perfect holiday retreat.
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The name “Cossack” is derived from the Turkish “kazak” meaning free man. By the end of the 15th century this name was applied to those Ukrainians who went into the steppes to practice various trades and engage in hunting, fishing, and beekeeping.
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Throughout its history Odessa has lured travellers, artists, poets, entrepreneurs, radical dissidents, and the Ukrainian Mafia.
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With its amazingly well preserved Gothic, Renaissance, neo-classical, rococo, and baroque architecture, gently bending streets and hidden ancient niches,
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Lviv is proud of its citizens, both the wicked and the holy. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch is remembered for the clinical term for morbidly obsessive behaviour, and is one of the darker characters of the Habsburg Empire.
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