Interesting, unusual, romantic, secret and popular places in the Podolsky district
On March 18, 2019, a monument to the pop artist, film actor, composer, poet and singer of the early 20th century, Alexander Vertinsky, was erected in Podol. And on March 21, the official opening of the sculpture of the cultural figure, who was born in Kyiv in 1889, took place (the ceremony was timed to … Read more
The theater-studio MIST (youth interactive modern theater) was created in October 2005 by a group of like-minded people: artistic director Yulia Gasilina, director and playwright Alexander Miroshnichenko, playwright and cultural critic Neda Nezhdnaya. MIST is associated primarily with the transition to the other side, another territory, unknown, unexplored. At the same time, it is a … Read more
There is a legend that the first wooden church of St. Nicholas of the Naberezhny was founded back in the 11th century on the banks of the Pochayna River near the place where a child allegedly drowned in 1092, who was miraculously found alive in front of the icon of St. Nicholas the Wet in … Read more
It is known that temples have stood on this site since ancient times. Back in the 18th century, when Priorka was not yet a suburb of Kyiv, but only a suburban settlement, there stood the wooden Demetrius Church (the Church of Saints George and Demetrius). In 1791, it was dismantled, and in 1795, “through the … Read more
Elias Church is possibly the first Orthodox church of Kievan Rus. The first mentions of it occur even before the Baptism of Rus’. The Tale of Bygone Years says that in 945, when the Kyiv ambassadors, after concluding an agreement with the Byzantine Emperor Roman, returned to Kiev, accompanied by a Greek delegation, a divine … Read more
The popular name of this building as “the house of Peter the Great” is nothing more than an urban legend. According to unconfirmed reports, Russian Tsar Peter the Great lived in this house during his visit to Kyiv in 1706. At that time, the building belonged to Hetman Ivan Mazepa, who personally received the Tsar. … Read more