A complete list of interesting, unusual, romantic, secret and popular places that are located near the Leo Tolstoy Square station (since 2023, the Square of Ukrainian Heroes)
Among the outstanding writers of the past, whose work has stood the test of time and entered the treasury of world culture, the classic of Jewish literature Sholom Aleichem (Rabinovich Solomon Naumovich) occupies an honorable place. In March 2009, in honor of the 150th anniversary of the writer’s birth, his museum was opened, which the … Read more
Friedrich Gustavovich Mikhelson (1840-1908) millionaire, was a member of the city duma, merchant of the 1st guild, a member of the Kyiv city duma. He was one of the ten richest citizens of Kyiv at the beginning of the 20th century. He owned brick and glass factories, a number of vast estates in the center … Read more
The cozy estate on Pankovskaya, just like a hundred years ago, will charm everyone who visits the Mikhail Grushevsky Historical and Memorial Museum. Since 1908, since it was acquired by the Grushevskys, it has become a real center and symbol of Ukrainianness in Kyiv. The history of this estate is directly related to decades of … Read more
PinchukArtCentre is one of the largest and most dynamic private contemporary art centers in Central and Eastern Europe. It was created by Ukrainian businessman and philanthropist Victor Pinchuk in September 2006 as the main cultural project of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation. The PinchukArtCentre is located in an ancient architectural ensemble of the Kyiv Bessarabian quarter, … Read more
The place where the market is now located was only improved in 1869. Before this, Bessarabka was a wasteland. It was constantly flooded with water running from all the surrounding hills and was strewn with household waste. The place was famous for the fact that tramps and people who traded in robbery and robbery gathered … Read more
Bogdan Ivanovich Khanenko (Russian industrialist, collector and philanthropist) graduated from Moscow University with a degree in law and was assigned to St. Petersburg in 1871. There, Yuri Druzhinin, the brother of the famous writer, and Dmitry Grigorovich, secretary of the St. Petersburg Society for the Encouragement of Artists, became his acquaintances. In St. Petersburg, Khanenko … Read more