Show WHAT IS THE UKRAINE in the heart of the lan territory poles ioles and ukrainians participated in a struggle anith the dolphe bolsby VIM what Is the ukraine the poles and the Lithuania ns of a few centuries ago knew aielt ell this roost anost turbulent section over alch they to rule and imperial for a long time vi ns as greatly troubled by this very enri unruly ily part of her expansive domain dom tin the latars and the turks felt its proximity because of the many raids made them thein by the wild warriors of the steppes says nevin kevin 0 winter in a communication to the national geographic society the ukraine includes southeastern russia with the exception of the province known as Bes sarabia which r 14 Y K ir 4 ax ml ukraine peasant girl partakes of the character of the bal kan states and Is peopled with ton rou maniano and bulgarians Bulga rians tho the great seaport of odessa and surrounding country have been added to U under the now alignment the ukraine does not reach much north of kiev or east cast of charko Kh arko but it la Is a large state in itself about as large as the former german em emzille pille with wilh some twenty five or thirty millions of people living in it there Is a lure about the limitless stretches of the steppe in the ukraine in wide level spaces or in gentle undulations they reach out tin nn til sky arid horizon meet in a aim ly perceptible line hue parts of it one very much of our own western prairies in spring and ummer summer it li ig an ocean of verdure with the varied shades of green of the grow growing ilig vegetation interspersed with flowers of 0 many hues later inter in the autumn after tile the crops are harvested it becomes a brown waste of stubble and burned up pastures in winter it Is a white glistening expanse of snow there are not nanny many old towns in the ukraine except in kiev and kharlov Khar kov one will hardly find a building in more than a hundred years old no old medieval churches chur clies built up by the toll ot of generations or 0 hands no old chateaux ot of the nobility no palaces rich in pictures will be encountered the preat great majority of tile towns are still big overgrown villages the to towns are separated from each other oilier by enormous distances with imperfect in communication the peasants plant their villages in the lee ice ot of some swell in the surface or by the c edge dge of a t stream in NN aich they can v water ater their flocks during the drought which may co come coe e |