Taras Shevchenko Park
Leafy square of chess tables and fountains, facing a red classical university and a poet's statue.
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This guide to Taras Shevchenko Park in Kyiv starts among the chess players and turns to the blood-red university building across the street, and the story local guides like to tell about why it is that colour. It reaches back to the eighteen forties and the eighteen nineties, to an imperial order's ribbon, a tsar, and Ukraine's national poet. Best heard from the park's central path, with the red facade in view.
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