Garden
A.V. Fomin Botanical Garden
University garden founded in the 1830s, with towering old palms in a glass climatron and greenhouses.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the A.V. Fomin Botanical Garden in Kyiv follows the garden's director and a small crew of his staff through the winter of nineteen nineteen into nineteen twenty, when the city was under shelling and the greenhouse glass lay broken. It is a story about the daily, physical work of keeping tropical plants alive in a Ukrainian frost. Stand near the tall glass climatron where the oldest palms grow.
This audio guide was created using AI.