Where on Earth
Everything we curated for this Kyiv episode. Tours, books, cookbooks, cultural resources.
Most of the world meets Kyiv only as a name beneath a headline, a present-tense city that seems to have no past. The truth is older than almost everything around it. Kyiv was officially founded in the year 482, and it marked its 1,500th birthday back in 1982. It is older than Moscow by four centuries. A thousand years ago, under Yaroslav the Wise, it held more people than London and raised a cathedral of gold built to rival Constantinople, and those mosaics still glow today. This is the story of one of Europe’s oldest capitals, told layer by layer, beneath the skyline you only think you recognize.
In this documentary, discover how a Viking trading post on the Dnipro river became the cradle of a whole civilization, and why a city this ancient is so rarely seen for what it truly is.
Kyiv is one of my very favorite cities, and I’ve seen many in numerous countries.
This documentary explains very well, why the Moskali simply cannot rest when Kyiv is the center of free Rus people. It constantly reminds them that it is, they, that is subject to Kyiv, not the other way around as the Moskali would have you think.