Book/Printed Material Guide to Kiev and Its Environs, Including an Address Section, Map and Phototype Views of Kiev.
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Title
- Guide to Kiev and Its Environs, Including an Address Section, Map and Phototype Views of Kiev.
Summary
- This 1890 guidebook provides comprehensive information for visitors to Kiev. It includes a history of the city and details of places of interest, such as Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, the cathedrals and other churches, historical monuments, public gardens and wooded areas, public and administrative buildings, and bridges over the Dnieper River. Included is useful information for travelers, such as timetables for trains, steamships, and other passenger transport and a directory for hotels, restaurants, doctors, banks, stores, baths, libraries, clubs, and city and church authorities. The guide anticipates by 24 years Baedeker's guide to Russia and is much more detailed. Also included are maps showing key attractions and local streets. The guide was published at the time when Kiev was becoming a significant industrial center, which is reflected in the directory and advertising section. Pages of advertisements are devoted to various agricultural machines, equipment for steam and water mills, pipes, steel for building railroads and bridges, steam engines and boilers, and other industrial products. More personal items on offer include fabrics, bicycles, hats, wine, fruit trees, furniture, and teas.
Names
- Bublik, V. D. (Vasilīĭ Dmitrīevich) Author.
Created / Published
- [place of publication not identified] : S.V. Kul'zhenko, 1890.
Headings
- - Ukraine--Kiev
- - 1890
- - Cathedrals
- - Churches
- - Guidebooks
- - Kievo-Pecherskaya Monastery
- - Maps
- - Monuments and memorials
Notes
- - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- - Original resource extent: 354 pages : tables, illustrations, map.
- - Original resource at: Yaroslav Mudryi National Library of Ukraine.
- - Content in Russian.
- - Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
Medium
- 1 online resource.
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2021666598
Online Format
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