Baikove Cemetery
Hillside necropolis founded in the nineteenth century, resting place of poets, scientists and presidents.
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This guide to Baikove Cemetery in Kyiv follows Borys Mozolevskyi, a poet who spent years feeding furnaces as a stoker, and the summer of nineteen seventy-one, when his expedition cut into a Scythian burial mound on the southern steppe that robbers had emptied long before. It touches Soviet publishing, ancient nomad goldsmithing and the famous names buried along these paths.
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