Ievgen Barannyk

Review of Foreign Affairs Ministry of Be...

This somber gray "bunker" was built at the time of...

This somber gray "bunker" was built at the time of the destruction of historical and religious monuments of Kiev by Bolsheviks. It was a part of the plan to demolish all the buildings from Mikhailovskaya Square to Sofia Church, which would allow the construction of a new architecture of the new communist era in its place. There is no need to be a great connoisseur of history and architecture, to imagine those terrible times, looking around: at the Funicular, Mikhailovsky Golden-Domed Monastery and St. Andrew's Church by Italian architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli. From the Monastery, we go along the Desjatynna street to the Andriivsky Descent.