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In the southeastern corner of Poland, in the Low Beskids, lies a land called Lemkivshchyna. Nowadays remote and sparsely populated, this territory is the ancestral home of one of Europe’s most ...

Dad was part of an ethnic subgroup that inhabited an area of the Carpathian Mountains known as Lemkivshchyna. This Lemko region enjoyed a brief period of independence as the Lemko-Rusyn Republic ...

"We weren't taught about Rusyn art at school. We didn't even know that some artists who entered the canon, such as Nowosielski or Andy Warhol, were Lemkos. That was knowledge only a handful of ...

Andy Warhol, Nikifor and Jerzy Nowosielski are Lemko artists, or Carpathian Ruthenians. For years their art was unknown. A Warsaw museum wants to change that. "We weren't taught about Rusyn art at ...