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ABSTRACT
This paper explores long-term trends in Kyiv’s symbolic geography that ultimately led to the main battles of the Revolution of Dignity (2013–14), which occurred on two streets heading uphill from the Maidan into the government quarter: Hrushevskyi Street and Instytutska Street. The study delves into the historical development of the Pecherske and Lypky neighbourhoods as both real and symbolic centres of authority in modern Kyiv, demonstrating how the area between the city’s main avenue, Khreshchatyk, and Lypky became a significant space of interaction and conflict between the ruling authorities and society.
RÉSUMÉ
Cet article explore les tendances à long terme de la géographie symbolique de Kyïv, qui ont constitué le cadre des principales batailles de la Révolution de la Dignité (2013–14), soit deux rues montant du Maïdan vers le quartier gouvernemental : la rue Hrouchevski et la rue Instytoutska. L’étude se penche sur l’évolution historique des quartiers Petchersk et Lypky en tant que centres d’autorité réels et symboliques dans la Kyïv moderne, démontrant comment la zone située entre l’avenue principale de la ville, Krechtchatyk, et Lypky est devenue un espace important d’interaction et de conflit entre les autorités dirigeantes et la société.
Acknowledgments
The author would like to thank the three anonymous reviewers, whose constructive suggestions greatly improved the article. He is also grateful to Dr. James Krapfl, Dr. Guillaume Sauvé, and Marta D. Olynyk for their help with copy-editing.
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Notes
1. See Shore, Ukrainian Night; Marples and Mills, Ukraine’s Euromaidan; and Yekelchyk, Ukraine.
2. Lawson, Bavaj, and Struck, Guide to Spatial History.
3. See Lees, “Rematerializing Geography”; and Thrift, Spatial Formations.
4. Bilenky, Imperial Urbanism; Cybriwsky, Kyiv, Ukraine. See also Betlii, Dysa, and Martyniuk, Zhyvuchi v modernomu misti; Meir, Kiev, Jewish Metropolis; and Coleman, “From Kiev across All.” There also exists an excellent older work: Hamm, Kiev.
5. See Karger, Drevnii Kiev, 247–52; and Mal′chenko, “Vplyv artyleriiskoï praktyky.”
6. Klymovs′kyi, Sotsial′na topohrafiia Kyieva, 13–21; Alferova and Kharlamov, Kiev vo vtoroi polovine, 73–86.
7. Alferova and Kharlamov, Kiev vo vtoroi polovine, 31–36, 62–63.
8. Plan Kieva; Zakrevskii, Opisanie Kieva, vol. 2, 583.
9. Zakrevskii, Opisaniie Kiieva, vol. 1, 328; “Staraia Ivanovskaia doroga.”
10. Pavlenko, Ivan Mazepa, 126, 133.
11. Ibid., 127; “Vuiakhevych-Vysochynsky, Mykhailo”; Ohloblyn, Het′man Ivan Mazepa, 131.
12. Tairova-Iakovleva, Ivan Mazepa, 79, 82–99, 198–99, 204–05.
13. See, for example, the entry on Mazepa on the site of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory: “1639 – narodyvsia Ivan Mazepa.”
14. Tairova-Iakovleva, Ivan Mazepa, 203–05; Chobitko, “Urban Features.”
15. Sitkareva, Kievskaia krepost′, 33.
16. Khvedchenia, “Rozbudova kyïvs′kykh khramiv,” 410.
17. Ikonnikov, “Kiev v 1654–1855 gg.,” 229.
18. Ibid. The Grand Duke Alexander of Lithuania (later the King of Poland, known as Alexander Jagiellon) granted the Magdeburg privileges to Kyiv in the 1490s. They were abrogated with the establishment of the Kyiv viceroyalty by Catherine II in 1781, restored by Alexander I in 1802, and finally abolished by Nicholas I in 1835 – four years later than elsewhere in the Russian Empire – upon the creation of a municipal council.
19. Zakrevskii, Opisanie Kieva, vol. 2, 584–85.
20. Ernst, Kyiv, 472.
21. Druh, Vulytsiamy staroho Kyieva, 304.
22. Yekelchyk, “Ideological Park.”
23. Rybakov, Nevidomi ta malovidomi storinky, 118.
24. Chuchman, “Kazennyi hubernators′kyi budynok.”
25. Zakrevskii, Opisanie Kieva, vol. 1, 119.
26. Druh, Vulytsiamy staroho Kyieva, 228.
27. Malakov and Druh, Osobniaky Kyieva, 114.
28. Bilenky, Imperial Urbanism, 138.
29. Ibid., 174–75.
30. Ernst, Kyiv, 435.
31. Bilenky, Imperial Urbanism, 215–18; Boguslavskii and Margolin, Sputnik po g. Kievu, 22.
32. Bilenky, Imperial Urbanism, 330; Kondel′-Perminova, Khreshchatyk, 22–25.
33. Kal′nyts′kyi, Malakov, and Iurkova, Narysy z istoriï Kyieva, 198–200; Kal′nyts′kyi, “Budynok 2-oï pol. XIX st.”
34. “Vozvrashchenie Tsaritsy Marii Feodorovny”; “Mariia Feodorovna.”
35. Kucheruk, “Budynok Tsentral′noï Rady.”
36. Tsentral′nyi derzhavnyi arkhiv hromads′kykh ob’iednan′ Ukraïny (TsDAHO), fond 1, opys 20, sprava 6419, fol. 76.
37. Ibid., opys 6, sprava 376, fol. 5.
38. Ibid., opys 20, sprava 6420, fols. 52–53.
39. Shirochin, Arkhitektura mezhvoennogo Kieva.
40. Kondel′-Perminova, Khreshchatyk, 56; Yekelchyk, Stalin’s Citizens, 55.
41. Bilenky, Imperial Urbanism, 228.
42. TsDAHO, fond 1, opys 6, sprava 407, ark. 10.
43. Kostiuchok, “Uriadovyi tsentr u Kyievi,” 106–08; Shirochin, Arkhitektura mezhvoennogo Kieva.
44. TsDAHO, fond 1, opys 6, sprava 374, fols. 26–27.
45. Ostapiuk, “Heneral′nyi plan,” 240–41.
46. Televiziina sluzhba novyn, “Zhurnalistam pokazaly taiemni khody.”
47. Kondel′-Perminova, Khreshchatyk, 57.
48. Yekelchyk, Stalin’s Citizens, 53.
49. Bazhan, “Ushanuvannia pam’iati”; Ovsiienko, “Mohyl′nyi Viktor Mykolovych.”
50. Dziuba, Spohady i rozdumy, 509–10.
51. Bilokin′, Klub tvorchoi molodi, 48.
52. Zakharov, “Sorok rokiv.”
53. Donii, Students′ka revoliutsiia na graniti, 14.
54. Ibid.
55. Donii and Synel′nykov, Istoriia USS, 98–99.
56. See Yevhenii Safarians’ contribution to this section.
57. Trybushna and Solomko, Nebesna sotnia, 9; Shore, Ukrainian Night, 35.
58. Trybushna and Solomko, Nebesna sotnia, 11.
59. Televiziina sluzhba novyn, “Iatseniuk rozpoviv.”
60. Strazhnyi, Maidan, 68–197.
61. Solod′ko et al., “Try dni pered vesnoiu.”
62. Ibid.
63. Trybushyna and Solomko, Nebesna sotnia, 18–19; Strazhnyi, Maidan, 286–98.
64. See note 61 above.
65. Strazhnyi, Maidan, 299–320.
66. Wanner, “Commemoration”; Yekelchyk, “Heavenly Hundred.”
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Serhy Yekelchyk
Born and educated in Ukraine, Serhy Yekelchyk received a PhD from the University of Alberta. He is the author of eight books on modern Ukrainian history and Russo-Ukrainian relations, including the award-winning Stalin’s Citizens: Everyday Politics in the Wake of Total War (Oxford University Press, 2014). A professor of History and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria, Yekelchyk is the current president of the Canadian Association for Ukrainian Studies.