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Independence Square is the central square of Kiev. By the end of the tenth century, this area, like the whole of Khreshchatyk today, was called Pereisyschem and was a swamp. Where Sofia Street now begins, there was the Lyadskaya Gate leading to the...

The beginning of the 20th century is the end of such a cultural phenomenon as the Wild West. The immigrant caravans began to thin noticeably, the land was mostly distributed among farmers, the Indians were driven into reservations, and the dashing...

These photographs from the ethnographic album depict the life of Ukrainians at the beginning of the 20th century. This time in the history of Ukraine is characterized by a general revolutionary upsurge, which was caused by sharp class contradictions...

These colorful postcards of the Odessa harbor were made 1900-1914. In the summer of 1905, the sailors of the battleship Prince of Potemkin-Tavrichesky raised an uprising, which became the first case of a military rebellion during the revolution. After...

Authorship of these photos belongs to the Italian Paolo di Paolo. He dedicated many of his works to his homeland, which he did intentionally and accidentally. Paolo was familiar with celebrities and often recorded interesting moments of their lives on...

On May 29, 1913, the All-Russian Factory, Trade and Industry, Agricultural and Scientific-Art Exhibition opened in Kiev. It occupied an area of ​​28 hectares around Cherepanova Mountain, the lands of the military engineering department and Trinity Square...

Fans of rock music are quite extraordinary personalities. They are free and easy to lift. Perhaps that is why rock festivals are so often held, held and will be held in the future. One of the most memorable events associated with rock music and its...

These postcards were published in 1979 in the Kiev publishing house "Art". The presentation edition was designed for tourists, and it was in Ukrainian, Russian and English. Here in the 1950s and especially in the 1960s, Ukrainians en masse from...

Learning a story is always fun. How did people live in the past, what did they do, what were they thinking about? Without the past, there is no future. But sometimes the information that was before becomes a real discovery. Very often, studying history...

These are pictures of Crimea dated 1905. Their author is the French Baron Joseph de Bey. He traveled all his life, was fond of archeology, history and ethnography. On the territory of Crimea, Baron Joseph de Bey spent several years. There he studied...