The network showed interesting historical photos of Kyiv. The future Shevchenko Boulevard, Maidan, and Zhytniy Rynok (Zhytniy Market). It's amazing how these places looked 130 years ago.
The photos are published by "Spraga: it is interesting in Kyiv" on its Facebook page.
The future Shevchenko Boulevard, 1900
The building in the photo looks like a real castle! And in the distance you can see the Iron Church, which once stood on Halytska Square.
Maidan, 130 years ago
If you do not know what is actually depicted in the photo, you might think that it is the wild west in the United States.
Zhytniy Rynok, 1900s.
In the photo, we can see private houses on a hill, threatened by a landslide.
During this period, Kyiv experienced two construction booms - in 1895-1899 and 1909-1914, during which profitable houses were built especially actively.
Earlier, Apostrophe wrote about the oldest residential building in Kyiv.