Vozdvizhenka
Ravine quarter of candy-coloured mock-historic houses, built as a luxury enclave.
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This guide to Vozdvyzhenka in Kyiv follows a hidden ravine of potters and tanners that was rebuilt in the two thousands as a pastel village for millionaires. It turns on the buyers who paid fortunes for these toy-bright houses, the builders who sold them, and what the ground beneath had to say about it. Along the way you'll meet an architect who knew the old quarter and a famous writer born on this street. Best heard standing among the coloured facades at the bottom of the slope.
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