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Photo, Print, Drawing View of Podil and Florovsky Monastery.

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Title

  • View of Podil and Florovsky Monastery.

Summary

  • This view of Podil (also known as Podol) is from Souvenir of Kiev, an early 20th-century album showing the main sites of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine and at that time one of the most important cities of the Russian Empire. The name Podil derives from an old Slavic word meaning "lowlands." Established before the city expanded into the surrounding hills, Podil stretches along the Dnieper River. It was where Kiev's trade, commerce, and industry originated and where craftsmen, merchants, and fishermen sold their wares. This image shows the area from above, including the hills within the city, and the Florovsky (or Ascension) Monastery, which is located in Podil at the top of Castle Hill. The monastery originated in the 16th century as a pair of wooden churches dedicated to Saints Florus and Laurus. The 25 views in Souvenir of Kiev are collotypes, made using a chemically-based printing process widely employed before the invention of offset lithography.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1900 to 1920]

Headings

  • -  Ukraine--Kiev
  • -  1900 to 1920
  • -  Cities and towns
  • -  Monasteries

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 photomechanical print : collotype.
  • -  Original resource at: Yaroslav Mudryi National Library of Ukraine.
  • -  Content in German and French and Russian.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Souvenir of Kiev

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021669050

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

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IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Chicago citation style:

View of Podil and Florovsky Monastery. Ukraine Kiev, 1900. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1920] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021669050/.

APA citation style:

(1900) View of Podil and Florovsky Monastery. Ukraine Kiev, 1900. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1920] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021669050/.

MLA citation style:

View of Podil and Florovsky Monastery. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1920] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021669050/>.