Fate of geniuses in the history of Kyiv.
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But whatever ancient Kyiv is fine, the main thing is the following- great people who left a unique trace in its history. And first of all, Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of the novels "The Master and Margarita", "White Guard" and other literary masterpieces.
During your trip you will have the unique opportunity to visit the house-museum of Mikhail Bulgakov in Kyiv ...
Alexander Blok visited Kyiv in 1907. Here`s what he wrote about Kyiv:
"You can stand in the twilight on the high mountain: on one side - country jail, dig around by the moat. Red moon rises, and sentinels walk. And ahead - high grass ... Behind weeds - all Kyiv amphitheater - white and gold of the churches, while it is not flooded in dusk. And later - Kyiv flies in the lights and far behind the sea of railway electricity and the blue haze. "
Block in Kyiv was charmed by its not typical, casual lines of landscape, which he was able to notice accurately and which in his poetry acquired special expressiveness. He liked the Dnieper most- "Gogol, huge" and "endless railway bridges and steamships"...
Alexander Blok visited Kyiv in 1907.
Ivan Bunin had to arrive for a literary evening with Alexander Blok . At the last moment Bunin refused and was "replaced" by Andrei Beliy, who came from Moscow. He had uneasy relationship with Blok, but a miracle was accomplished: they sank a feud in Kyiv!
Osip Mandelstam was also associated with Kyiv, in February 1919 he and his brother went to Ukraine, first to Kharkov, and then to Kyiv, where Mandelstam took part in literary evenings, worked for the magazine "Hermes", met Ehrenburg, Trubetskoy, other well-known poets and writers of the Silver Age. In Kyiv in May 1919 there was an acquaintance of the poet with his future wife, Nadezhda Khazini.
Not everyone knows that the famous singer Alexander Vertinsky was born in Kyiv. In Vladimirskaya Street, 43, a memorial plaque that tells about the fact that this extraordinary man was born here on March 21, 1889. Vertinsky is the author of the breathtaking poem about his native Kyiv, which his wife Lydia found after the singer`s death in mid-1957. In 1945, Alexander Vertinsky after a long journey came back to his native Kyiv and wrote to his wife: "Here I am in Kyiv. I cannot describe you the feeling that came over me at the entrance to the city of my childhood and youth ... If Moscow was a return to Motherland, Kyiv is the return to the paternal home. "
In 1949, in a letter to his wife, too, while being in Kyiv, he wrote:
"I wish I could live and die here. Just here! What a pity that one cannot choose a corner of the earth. What is Moscow for me? I do not love it. I wholeheartedly attached to these stones, which I walked in my youth, rubbing the soles, these century-chestnuts, which were then, and will be there after my death, as candlesticks, as panikadilo! All this is the sacred earth of Motherland! It is a pity that I`m singing in Russian and I am Russian myself! I would have to be Ukrainian singer and sing in Ukrainian! Ukraine - Ridna maty (Ukraine is my Mother) ... Sometimes I think I`m doing a crime not singing for it and on its language! .. "
A great poet Anna Akhmatova`s adolescence is connected with Kyiv. Her amazing love with Nikolai Gumilev did not started in Kyiv, but her lover so often hurried to Kyiv being a student, a poet, a traveler...
How many times he got abandonment from Anna, how many times in desperation he was ready to commit suicide, but it was in Kyiv where love of his youth came true...
We will refresh in our memory the name of Mikhail Vrubel, the artist, whose fate from 28 years of age and up to the last days of his life was closely connected with Kyiv and its spiritual aura. While being a student at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, Vrubel accepted an offer to revive new compositions on the place of the lost murals XII century in the St. Cyril`s Church. In addition Vrubel carried out part of murals in the dome of St. Sophia, as well as sketches of interior of the Vladimirskiy cathedral.
There he fell in love with one of Kyiv woman. Her image haunted artist everywhere. He even captured it in the iconostasis of Kirilovskaya temple. But after the artist`s feelings were rejected, Vrubel starts to think seriously about the character of his famous Demon ...
Going on an exciting tour "Kyiv - history, poetry and mysticism", you will learn a lot of fascinating stories of these wonderful people, will visit the places of their life in Kyiv ... And, you can communicate with creative people, your colleagues in the coffee bar "Besednitsa" (“Chat”) over a cup of tea. Now, these cafes are becoming extremely popular in the Ukrainian capital ...
These cafes are very democrati, you can warm up in a kitchenette your regale brought with you, you can bring any treats that are not scheduled in the cafe. You can even relax in the soft room "Valalniya"(“Lie around”) or spend a small creative evening in the small hall of "Besednitsa"
Some stories of famous people are associated not only with Kyiv but its suburbs. With our help within the tour you will visit the Ukrainian Peredelkino – Irpin, which is associated with the name of Boris Pasternak and Heinrich Neuhaus ...
But more on this see the following topic: "Mysteries of the suburbs of Kiev".
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