Kyiv Fortress
Slanted nineteenth-century caponier turned political prison, now a museum of fortress history.
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This guide to the Kosyi Kaponir at the Kyiv Fortress looks at a lopsided nineteenth-century gun-house and the gap between what it was built for and what it actually did. It follows the fortress into its years as a prison for the empire's political inmates, and to one young man who arrived in September nineteen eleven with the Tsar's secret police on his résumé. Best heard standing among the firing ports inside the caponier.
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