The monument to Stolypin in Kyiv in front of the Semadeni café
The monument to Stolypin in Kyiv in front of the Semadeni café. The monument was built on the initiative of Russian nationalists in 1913, two years later after…
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A view of the Polytechic Institute in Kyiv
A view of the Polytechic Institute in Kyiv, founded in 1898. According to a widespread European practice, modern educational institutions were built on the…
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The Contract Fair in Kyiv
A copy of this photo, one of a much worse quality but in a wider perspective, was used as an illustration in a book by Fedir Ernst entitled The Contracts and…
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The Volodymyrska hill, Oleksandrivsky (now Volodymyrsky) Uzviz street and Podil
The Volodymyrska hill, Oleksandrivsky (now Volodymyrsky) Uzviz street and Podil. An electric tram is running along the street. The residential and technical…
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Oleksandrivsky (now Volodymyrsky) Uzviz street
Oleksandrivsky (now Volodymyrsky) Uzviz street in 1913. A tram (presumably a steam one) is running along it. The street is distinctly divided into a…
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Fundukleivska (now Bohdana Khmelnytskoho) street
Fundukleivska (now Bohdana Khmelnytskoho) street at the turn of the twentieth century. The first version of the crisscross tram line can be seen. The…
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Fundukleivska (now Bohdana Khmelnytskoho) street
Fundukleivska (now Bohdana Khmelnytskoho) street in the early twentieth century. The photo depicts a certain stage of the urban development of Kyiv, in…
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Tsarska square
A retouched photo of the Tsarska square in the early twentieth century. On the right one can see the three-storied building of the Yevropeiska hotel, built in…
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The arrival of the first train at the Kyiv train station
One of the earliest photos of Kyiv depicts the arrival of the first train at the Kyiv train station. Only one track was built at that time. Tricoloured flags…
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A view of the Volodymyrska hill and Podil
A view of the Volodymyrska hill and Podil. In the foreground, there is a Dnieper precipice and the Magdeburg Rights column (below) with an earth path; on the…
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Petrovsky Park
An atmospheric photo of the Petrovsky (now Mariinsky) park. This park was meant for relaxing walks and was closed for peasants and for the poor.…
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A panorama of Kyiv with a view of the University
A classic panorama of late imperial Kyiv with a view of the University main building from Kruhlouniversytetska / Kruty Uzviz street. A big number of similar…
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The Volodymyrska hill and the monument to St. Volodymyr
The Volodymyrska hill and the monument to St. Volodymyr. The celebration of the 900th anniversary of the baptism of Rus (1888) must have been recorded. A lot…
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Sofiyska street
Sofiyska street in the late nineteenth century before the reconstruction of the early twentieth century. For the most part, the street consists of one- and…
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A view of the Nova Budova area
A view of the Nova Budova area in the second half of the nineteenth century. With the emergence of the train station and the St. Volodymyr university main…
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