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This sculptural composition is dedicated to main characters of a popular movie Za Dvoma Zaitsiamy (meaning “killing two birds with one stone”), screened in 1961. The enamoured daughter of the well-off parents dreamed to ascend the magnificent staircase leading to the Saint Andrew’s Church so that to marry there with her suitor Svyryd Golokhvastov who, in fact, loved another girl that was poor; but he intended to marry a fortune. Starring in this …
The Kiev Conservatory was founded in 1913 at the Kiev campus of the Music College of the Russian Musical Society. The organization of the conservatory was spearheaded by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alexander Glazunov, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The first directors were V. Pukhalsky (1913) and Reinhold Glière (1914–1920). In 1925, the lower storeys were separated from the conservatory to form a musical college, while the older classes became the …
Zamkova Hill is a historical site in the centre of the Kiev city. According to some historians, Zamkova Hill has a mystical prehistory, it is supposed to be one of the sites of witch gatherings. Reclaiming the mystical essence of the hill, local satanist groups conduct their ceremonies there since late 1980s. In the 18th century a Muslim cemetery was established here. Nowadays, it is a small landscape park in Podil, still containing interesting …
The House of the Weeping Widow is an architectural landmark of Kiev. Constructed in 1907 in the early Art Nouveau style by architect E. Bradtman, it was commissioned by Serhiy Arshavsky, a wealthy merchant from Poltava, who occupied it before the Bolshevik Revolution. The building kept its first owner’s name long afterwards, and even today is sometimes referred to as the Serhiy Arshavskyi Building. Following the revolution it was occupied by the …
A sculpture settled down town in Independence Square has became a place for romantic appointments. Sculpture to Enamored Lanterns is elegant lantern man six fit tall the fashionable man who holds in his arms his beautiful bride which has a pink dress. Love is not fading light – is the general leitmotiv of this sculpture. This sculpture was settled on Independence square for St. Valentine’s Day three years ago and has become an event for the …
The Kiev Passage is a building complex with a small, narrow street (passage) stretched through it. The street address of the building is Khreshchatyk, 15. The street has many small outdoor cafés and shopping stores on the buildings’ first floors and residential apartments on the upper floors.
This monument is standing at the corner of Khreshchatic and Proreznaya streets. Mikhail Panikovskiy is a well-known character from Ilf and Petrov’s novel “The Golden Calf”. The actor that played Panikovskiy in the movie is Z.Gerdt, and his portrait you can see in Panikovskiy’s face. The monument was opened in 1998, sculptors – V.Shchur and V.Sivko, architect – V.Skulskiy.
St. Andrew’s Descent is one of the oldest streets connecting the Saint Andrew’s Church and the upper town to the lower town. It is one of the major touristic attractions of the capital, famous for being the place where past writers, scholars and artists lived and worked. It is also an open air market where you’ll find paintings, Soviet memorabilia and various hand made products. The Descent is sometimes nicknamed the Montmartre of Kiev: you will …
The Central Synagogue was founded by the multi-millionaire Lazar Brodsky, 1989. It was not possible to get permission to build the Synagogue at once, because the tsarist authorities at that time restricted the rights of Kiev’ Jewish community. Brodsky had to resort to a ruse. His appeal to the Senate contained the design of a side facade that looked like the facade of an ordinary building, only part of which was going to be used as a …
Established in the summer of 1867 by Ferdinand Berger. Berger succeeded in inviting many talented singers, musicians, and conductors, and the city council (duma) had offered the newly created trouppe to use the City Theatre (constructed in 1856, architect I. Shtrom) for their performances. Officially, the theatre was named the City Theatre but it was most commonly referred to as the Russian Opera. The day of the first performance, November 8 …
