Interesting, unusual, romantic, secret and popular places in Shevchenkivskyi district
The idea of creating a monument arose in society on the initiative of the historian, professor at Kyiv University Nikolai Kostomarov in the 1840s. After receiving permission from the imperial government in 1860, a committee was created headed by Mikhail Yuzefovich, a university professor and head of the Kyiv archaeographic commission. The first design of … Read more
Until March 2017, the museum was called the Kiev Museum of Russian Art. The Gallery of Russian Art was founded in 1922 on the basis of nationalized private collections, the basis was the collection of the Tereshchenko family (a Cossack-philistine and noble (since 1870) family originating from Glukhovshchina). In 1934, the gallery received the status … Read more
Babi Yar is a tract in the northwestern part of Kiev, which gained sad worldwide fame as a place of mass executions of civilians, mainly Jews, Gypsies, Kiev Karaites, as well as Soviet prisoners of war, carried out by German occupation forces and Ukrainian collaborators during the Great Patriotic War. The first execution took place … Read more
Volodymyrska Gorka (formerly Mikhailovskaya) is an elevation above the right bank of the Dnieper, a park-monument of landscape gardening art of local importance, which was founded in the middle of the 19th century. The development and planning of the slopes began in the 1830s. In 1853, a monument to Vladimir the Great was erected on … Read more
Installed in Taras Shevchenko Park Anna Kiseleva’s sculpture “Babtsya is classic” is a symbol of the classic Kyiv grandmother of the 80s last century. A little harmful, touching, caringly cozy, often leaving her usual environment to help her children and grandchildren, she sat down to rest on a bench… The patron who gave Kiev “Babtsya … Read more
Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University is known not only in Ukraine, but also in other countries around the world. The Taras Shevchenko Park is located opposite the university and was founded in 1860 – then it was called University. In 1898, on the site of the future monument to Shevchenko, a monument was erected to … Read more