Kontraktova Square
Historic riverside market square where a great winter trade fair once sealed grain and estate deals.
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This guide to Kontraktova Square in Kyiv follows a landowner into Podil for the winter Contracts Fair, where grain, leases and whole estates changed hands on paper. It reaches back to a small Volhynian town where the fair began and to the imperial decree that moved it, and it names the writers who passed through the hall's doors. Stand facing the columned building with the triangular pediment.
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