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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... hundred thou- sand inhabitants . Kiev : A Portrait , 1800-1917 is the story of the city's transformation and renascence during these decades of exceptional growth . In exploring the changing world of late - imperial Kiev , I have been ...
... hundreds of churches were built , among them St. Sophia Cathedral , modeled after Constantinople's Hagia Sophia . From his death , however , Kievan Rus began a process of decline , aided by the demise of its trading partners , the ...
... hundred long muskets - stood thirty bar- racks for soldiers , the homes of the city's administrative elite , three Or- thodox churches ( the most important of which was the Castle Church of St. Nicholas ) , and a Catholic chapel for ...
... hundred students . By 1780 its library had accumulated twelve thousand volumes.26 By this time , however , St. Petersburg's Academy of Sciences , founded in 1725 , and Moscow Uni- versity , founded in 1755 , had surpassed it in stature ...
... hundred Germans settled in Kiev . Religious pil- grims also poured into the city , and sometimes " ordinary people traveled south simply as a diversion , much in the way one would now visit a for- eign land . " 41 Podil continued to be ...
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 |