Taras Bulba - A Tale of the Cossacks #222923

The Ukraina, briefly stated, is — the Border Marches. Naturally it has varied, in different epochs, just as our Western Frontier (pretty nearly its exact equivalent) varied at different periods in the briefer history of the United States, and was pushed further and further away from the Eastern centre of civilisation. In the case of Rus sia, Moscow represented that centre.