Kiev: A Portrait, 1800-1917In a fascinating "urban biography," Michael Hamm tells the story of one of Europe's most diverse cities and its distinctive mix of Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, and Jewish inhabitants. A splendid urban center in medieval times, Kiev became a major metropolis in late Imperial Russia, and is now the capital of independent Ukraine. After a concise account of Kiev's early history, Hamm focuses on the city's dramatic growth in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The first historian to analyze how each of Kiev's ethnic groups contributed to the vitality of the city's culture, he also examines the violent conflicts that developed among them. In vivid detail, he shows why Kiev came to be known for its "abundance of revolutionaries" and its anti-Semitic violence. |
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... Nicholas ) , and a Catholic chapel for those occasions when a Catholic governor was put in charge of the city . The Lithuanian princes fostered the economic recovery of Kiev by allowing its burghers unrestricted trade anywhere in their ...
... Nicholas I ( 1825-1855 ) finally abrogated the Magdeburg Rights . Supported by land - hungry nobles , rich Cracow burghers who hoped to secure control of the Dnipro trade routes , and the proselytizing Catholic church , the Polish kings ...
... Nicholas I greatly reduced Polish influence in the city and the region , but the Contract Fair and Kiev's St. Vladimir Univer- sity , founded in 1834 , continued to serve as centers for Polish political intrigue until Polish national ...
... Nicholas I , who visited the city in 1829 , saw Kiev as others had seen it , as a city notable for its blind , crippled , and poor , for its " terrible multitudes of the strange . " Wrote a German visitor : " To the shame of the ...
... Nicholas no doubt listened , for he loved the city , became personally involved in plans for its beautification , and even thought about making it " a third capital . " Between 1832 and 1852 Nicholas visited Kiev nine times . 12 On ...
Contents
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CHAPTER III Polish Kiev | 55 |
CHAPTER IV Ukrainians in Russian Kiev | 82 |
CHAPTER V Jewish Kiev | 117 |
CHAPTER VI Recreation the Arts and Popular Culture in Kiev | 135 |
Kiev in 1905 | 173 |
The October Pogrom | 189 |
CHAPTER IX The Final Years of Romanov Kiev | 208 |
Conclusion | 223 |
Notes | 237 |
Bibliography | 273 |
Index | 287 |