A complete list of interesting, unusual, romantic, secret and popular places that are located on the right bank of Kyiv
Doctor’s House No. 1 The Doctor’s House is one of the first multi-apartment residential buildings built during Soviet times in Kyiv. Created in the style of constructivism according to the design of the architect Pavel Aleshin (also designed Kovalevsky’s mansion) in 1930. A monument of history, architecture, and urban planning of local importance. The house … 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
In 1899, the Kiev Literacy Society approached the City Duma with an initiative to build a people’s house (a publicly accessible cultural and educational institution). The mayor took up the proposal and by the end of the year a resolution was issued on the free allocation of land next to the Trinity Church. Provincial architect … Read more
In 1910, a nobleman of Polish origin, Nikolai Kovalevsky, got tired of living in hotels and bought a plot on Lipki from the Kiev sugar factory Brodsky for 70,000 rubles (now the mansion stands surrounded by equally famous buildings like Tereshchenko mansion, chocolate house, Ikskyul-Gildenbanda house). The house designed by Pavel Aleshin (also designed doctor’s … 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
The monument to the Persian cat Panteleimon was erected in 1998 in Zolotovorotsky Square opposite the Pantagruel restaurant where the cat lived. In the mid-1990s, Margarita Sichkar, a Kiev restaurateur and director of the Pantagruel restaurant, which is located near Golden Gate, had a the idea of having a cat at the restaurant, which was … Read more