Lysa Hora
Wooded hilltop nature reserve with remains of a nineteenth-century fort and river-confluence views.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Lysa Hora in Kyiv follows a September night in nineteen eleven, when the Russian Empire's prime minister went to the opera with the tsar in town. It is a story of a young Kyiv lawyer, the tsar's secret police, and the question of who was really working for whom. Listen from the old fort's remains on the hilltop, where the second half of the story takes place.
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