There is a folk museum in on the outskirts of kiev. this place is very interesting, what they did is they found old village houses as old as 500 years old, disassembled them and then moved them to this outdoor museum. they have set up villages from different regions of ukraine. i would break ukraine into three major regions: the west, influenced by lithuania/hungary/poland; the south, influenced by greeks and tartars; and the east, north east(where we live); influenced by russia. one of the houses is the actual house of t. shevchenko. enough of the academia though, here are some pics for those that cant read.