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| nuthatch | profile | all galleries >> Ukraine >> five days in Kyiv | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
 downtown, in the Maydan Nezalezhnosti plaza |
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 walking around the big square |
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 a walking tour of the upper city |
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 Ivan Franko park |
 the president's palace |
 the house of the chimeras |
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 filming a music video for Lady Da-da |
 the 'chocolate house' |
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 the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament |
 Kyiv: traffic, art nouveau, and Soviet, side by side |
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 waiting to kiss the icons |
 the Maryinsky palace, now undergoing repairs |
 a view over the Dnipro river |
 the Dynamo Kyiv stadium! |
 love locks on a pedestrian bridge high over a roadway in Misky Sad park |
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 a Soviet-era tribute to Russian-Ukrainian friendship... |
 ...with some Cossacks added later |
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 at St. Michael's monastery |
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 St. Andrew's church |
 heading down Andriyivsky uzviz |
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 enjoying the architecture in Podil... |
 ...with Mitchell & Dori |
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 near the west bank of the Dnipro |
 taking the funicular back up to the upper city |
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 at the St. Sophia church complex |
 the cathedral dates from the 11th c.; mosaics and frescoes inside are original |
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 the Zoloti Vorota (a great gate of Kyiv!) |
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 50 cents will get you this salty bar snack; not sure it's a bargain |
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 learning a little about night photography from Mitchell |
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 next morning, down into the deep metro |
 at the central synagogue |
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 what's this guy doing here? |
 looking up Kreshchatyk boulevard |
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 at the Bessarabian market |
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 caviar and pickled foods |
 salo and cured meats |
 a street celebration of Ukraine in Europe |
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 at the Fomin botanical gardens |
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 the 'May Dance' festival in the Maydan |
 it's museum day: at the Taras Shevchenko house museum... |
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 ...a shrine to the 19th c. national poet |
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 the Khanenko art museum, an amazing collection of European and Asian art |
 Shevchenko university... |
 ...across from Shevchenko park, on Shevchenko boulevard |
 the Russian art museum, largest outside Russia |
 the Pinchuk art center, home to rotating modern art exhibits |
 next morning, at the obelisk memorial to the Great Patriotic War (WW2) |
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 the memorial to the victims of famines in the early 20th century |
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 at the Holy Assumption Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra... |
 ...a large monastery complex with churches and monks' caves |
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 this architectural chunk was part of the original Uspenskiy cathedral, destroyed in WW2 |
 the rebuilt cathedral |
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 the 19th c. refectory |
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 inside the refectory |
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 back outside, heading toward the lower lavra and caves |
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 an entrance to the lower caves |
 pretty fancy, but nothing like the prestige of preservation in the caves |
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 at the Dnipro metro station, waiting for a train to the upper city |
 waving goodbye to Kyiv... |