Bohdan Khmelnytsky Monument
Bronze equestrian statue of a Cossack hetman with raised mace, on a square facing a golden-domed cathedral.
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This guide to the Bohdan Khmelnytsky Monument in Kyiv follows the sculptor Mikhail Mikeshin and the grand equestrian design he drew up for the seventeenth-century Cossack hetman in the eighteen sixties and seventies. It touches on nervous imperial officials, a reluctant public fund, and a navy with scrap metal to spare. Stand facing the horse, where you can see both rider and stone.
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