• according to legend, a tunnel leads from the Kamianets-Podilskyi Castle (pictured) to the Khotyn Fortress which is 20 kilometres (12 mi) away?
• Khotyn Fortress (pictured), site of the Battle of Khotyn between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire in 1621, is one of the Seven Wonders of Ukraine?

Facts on topics related to Khotyn Fortress

Kiev

• Hetman Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny enrolled his entire Cossack army as students to prevent a Kievan school's conversion to a Jesuit Collegium?
• Kiev's Museum of Western and Oriental Art houses the largest collection of foreign art in Ukraine?
• Agatha, mother of Saint Margaret of Scotland, could have been either a daughter of Yaroslav the Wise of Kiev or a daughter of the Bulgarian Tsar?
• Bykivnia, a former village, now part of the Ukrainian capital Kiev, was the burial site of thousands of enemies of the Soviet power?
• Kyiv Arsenal is one of the oldest and most famous industrial companies of the Ukrainian capital Kiev?
  
• Lysa Hora hill in the Ukrainian capital Kiev is both a historical fortress and a mystical "bold mountain" where witches are believed to gather for their sabbaths?
• Obolon CJSC, the largest Ukrainian brewer based in Kiev, was the first private company of the independent Ukraine?
• St. Cyril's Monastery in Kiev, Ukraine was closed by the Tsarist Government and its living quarters were converted into a hospital and later an insane asylum, which lasted until the mid-late 20th century?
• St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery in Kiev may have been the first Russian and Ukrainian church to have a golden dome?
• among many historic landmarks at the Andrew's Descent in Kiev, there is a medieval Gothic style castle that locals call the "Castle of Richard the Lion Heart" due to the legend the 12th century King of England had visited the building?

Kamianets-Podilskyi Castle

• according to legend, a tunnel leads from the Kamianets-Podilskyi Castle (pictured) to the Khotyn Fortress which is 20 kilometres (12 mi) away?

Bukovina

• in order to register themselves as a political association according to Austro-Hungarian regulations, the Jewish socialist Bund of Bukovina had to limit its membership to male Austrian citizens?
• the platform of Austro–Hungarian Jewish politician Benno Straucher, who represented his Bukovina constituency in the Reichsrat, has been called "a sort of half-hearted Zionism"?

Moldavia

• Moldavia's Prince Grigore Alexandru Ghica (pictured) ordered the abolition of slavery after being shocked by the suicide of a Roma cook?
• a Romantic poem by Alexandru Hrisoverghi is credited with having inspired historic preservation in Moldavia?
• in 2007, three specimens of the Caspian whipsnake were found in Galaţi County, the first in Moldavia (eastern Romania) since 1937?
• local boyars protested against the Russian annexation of Bessarabia after the Russo-Turkish War in 1812, arguing that the Ottoman Empire had no right to cede a Moldavian territory?
• the Moldavian intellectual Gheorghe Asachi (pictured) opposed his country's union with Wallachia and endorsed the pro-separatist electoral fraud of June 1857?
• the practice of slavery in Wallachia and Moldavia lasted until the 1850s, and is what forced many local Roma people into sedentism?
• the Chronicle of Huru, a 19th century forgery advancing Moldavia's independence, claimed that a Moldavian federal republic emerged from the Roman province of Dacia in 274?

Russia

• 17th century Russian diplomat Pyotr Ivanovich Potemkin (pictured) is reputed to have insisted on lying in bed during an audience with the King of Denmark, who was himself confined to his bed, to demonstrate equality between Russia and Denmark?
• Abkhaz writer Fazil Iskander publishes articles for the Russian newspaper Kultura?
• aluminium alloys developed by Russian metallurgist Igor Gorynin are claimed to have the highest specific strength of all known weldable metallic materials?
• Armenian composer and musician Ara Gevorgyan composed the music for Russian prima ballerina Anastasia Volochkova's "Golden cage" ballet dedicated to the Bolshoi Theater?
• aviation historian Randy Acord was awarded the Alaska–Siberian Lend Lease Award for his role in improving Russian–North American relations during World War II?
• Chechen military commander Said-Magomed Kakiev has been declared a Hero of the Russian Federation four times, making him one of the most decorated Russian citizens?
• Chinese immigration to the Russian Far East has led to fears of Chinese irredentism in Russia, even though there are less than 35,000 Chinese in all of Russia?
• Count Orlov's Marble Palace, decorated with 32 shades of Russian marbles, currently houses the largest exhibition of Pop Art in Saint Petersburg?
• Emperor Paul of Russia ordered the name of his mistress Anna Lopukhina to be given to warships and to be inscribed on the standards of his Leib Guard?
• England brokered the 1617 Treaty of Stolbova between Sweden and Russia?

Romania

• "the light arises in the East", an apparently pro-Soviet slogan coined by Romanian writer Mihail Sadoveanu in 1945, is seen by some as a coded warning to his fellow Freemasons about communization?
• 45,000 Romanians living along the border with Yugoslavia were forcibly deported on June 18, 1951 due to deteriorating relations between the two countries?
• Caryl Churchill's play Mad Forest, developed partly in Bucharest in collaboration with Romanian and English drama students, was in production less than six months after the Romanian Revolution of 1989?
• exploitation film director/producer S. S. Millard was able to pass himself off as Romanian nobility when a former Romanian queen visited California?
• fairy tale collector Nicolae Constantin Batzaria was an Aromanian representative among the Young Turks, an Ottoman government minister, and one of Romania's best-known creators of comic strips?
• Romania's Daewoo Mangalia shipyard has built over 127 new ships and repaired another 300 since its founding in 1997?
• Romania's Piteşti prison housed the largest and most intensive form of brainwashing through torture ever carried out in the Eastern bloc?
• Romania's ruling Social Democratic–Democratic Liberal coalition was divided over Education Minister Ecaterina Andronescu's intervention in the appointment of school directors?
• Romanian avant-garde writer and classical violinist Grigore Cugler publicly criticized Communist Party politician Ana Pauker and resigned his diplomatic post, living the rest of his life in Peru?
• Romanian communist poet Alexandru Toma adapted several works of his Classicist predecessor Mihai Eminescu, removing their pessimistic tone and adding Socialist Realist rhetoric?