Ukrainians are celebrating Easter for the eleventh year not only in churches or their homes, but also at the front. Soldiers enjoy Easter bread, and military chaplains bless Easter baskets and pray ...

Effervescent color tablets aren’t the only way to dye Easter eggs. The Ukrainian art of egg decorating, pysanky, dates back more than 1,000 years. The intricate designs have symbolic meanings – ...

On a cold and snowy April morning at the Underwear Factory in Poughkeepsie, Ukrainian artist Vitalia Deriabina instructed a workshop of seven women in the art of writing “pysanky.” Pysanky is an ...

This spring, as she has done for years, Adam has turned raw eggs into pysanky, or colorful Ukrainian Easter eggs with intricate designs. Her artwork bears everything from eye-catching patterns to ...

A local artist specializes in Pysanky or Ukrainian Easter Eggs, which are an an ancient wax resist art form. The process uses beeswax and traditional dyes layered on real egg shells to create ...

Ukrainian Easter eggs are a must-have highlight of Easter, which Eastern Orthodox Christians will celebrate on April 20 in 2025. This is a wonderful gift for relatives, a talisman, a symbol of life ...

A fragile yet remarkably well-preserved duck eggshell, uncovered from the remnants of a 16th-century cesspit in Lviv, Ukraine, has been identified as the world’s oldest known pysanka — a traditional ...