Victor Kirkevich's new book "Kyiv for Romantics" will undoubtedly arouse readers' interest. The author invested in it his truly encyclopedic knowledge of Kiev, its famous streets, houses and inhabitants. He enthusiastically talks about St. Andrew's Descent and Askold's Tomb, Kiev's holy places and the Bald Mountains (places of gatherings of evil spirits), and, as is known, there are four in Kiev, Vladimirskaya Street and the Upper Town, Pechersk and Lipki, the Soviet past cities and its present, sprinkling his story with Kiev legends and legends, historical and simple anecdotes, stories of his acquaintance with visitors or celebrities living or living in the Ukrainian capital: writer Viktor Nekrasov, film director Alexander Sokurov, artist Ilya Glazunov and many others. The publication is illustrated with old postcards from the author's own collection, which allow you to see how Kiev has changed over the last century.
