page_title: Ukrainian architecture
section_title: Cossack epoch
hierarchical_section_title: Ukrainian architecture / Cossack epoch
caption_attribution_description: Northern entrance and the surrounding buildings of Hansaray in Bakhchisaray, Crimea.
context_page_description: Ukrainian architecture has initial roots in the Eastern Slavic state of Kievan Rus'. After the 12th century, the distinct architectural history continued in the principalities of Galicia-Volhynia and later in Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Ruthenia and Žemaitia. During the epoch of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, a new style unique to Ukraine was developed under the western influences of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
  After the union with the Tsardom of Russia, architecture in Ukraine began to develop in different directions, with many structures in the larger eastern, Russian-ruled area built in the styles of Russian architecture of that period, whilst the western Galicia was developed under Austro-Hungarian architectural influences. In both cases producing fine examples. Ukrainian national motifs would finally be used during the period of the Soviet Union and in modern independent Ukraine.
caption: Bakhchisaray Palace
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