History of Kiev. Kyiv is imperial

The third book of the project "History of Kiev" is called "Imperial Kyiv" and is devoted to the history of this city and all of Ukraine from the middle of the XVII century (Pereyaslav Rada) to the reign of Alexander II, when Russia was actually formed as an empire. In the figurative words of Viktor Kirkevich, he wanted to tell the modern reader "how Kyiv became Moscow", how it happened that Ukraine lost its bloody statehood and how the Hetmanate gradually became the outskirts of the Russian Empire. But even then, Kyiv did not lose its cultural identity and remained the most attractive and revered spiritual center of the empire. glorified Kyiv, this book tells.