Kyiv of Many Faces: How Our Elite Fought, Created, and Caused Mischief 100 Years Ago

«Kyiv, the Capital» is our love letter to the city that has become the true heart of Ukrainian statehood. This book is an attempt to immerse ourselves in the life of Kyiv a century ago, a life strikingly similar to today's reality: battles with Russians intertwined with the blossoming of Ukrainian art, intellectual gatherings, and the clashes of various social movements.
The heroes of this narrative are soldiers and politicians, artists, and writers. They include Skoropadskyi and Petliura, Narbut and Krychevsky, Pidmohylny and Zerov, Liudmyla Starytska-Cherniakhivska, and Bronislava Nizhynska, as well as other audacious and brilliant figures of that era who were forging a new state and new art. Through their biographies, the true protagonist is revealed — the unyielding Kyiv, capable of uniting such a diverse group of brilliant individuals around itself.