• A look of the Dumska square (now Maydan Nezalezhnosti) 2

A look of the Dumska square (now Maydan Nezalezhnosti)

Images

ID:
5146
Place
Kyiv
Date:
1900-1917
Technique:
Photograph (printed on paper)
Size of the resource:
Unknown
Creator
Unknown
Collection
H.S. Pshenychnyi Central State Cinema, Photo and Phono Archive of Ukraine
Copyright
Central State Kinofotofono Archive after G.S. Pshenychny
Publisher
Unpublished resources
Description

A look of the Dumska (now Maydan Nezalezhnosti) square from the garden behind the City Duma building. As it was the case with Bibikovsky boulevard, this garden had a fencing, this time a delicate metal one. The main purpose of the fencing must have been to ban access for peasants, who sold farm products, as well as for city artisans or workers. These fences were used as an instrument of social segregation; after all, this was a place where the nobles gathered away from the noisy municipal institution.

A fountain was arranged in the center of the square; at that time it started to fullfill an aesthetic function instead of an economic one. Earlier, before the 1870s-1880s, people could take drinking water from it (the so-called “Urod” fountain); now access was complicated because of a flowerbed made around it. It could also be connected with the fact that the neighbouring houses were already provided with running water. The housing scale was changed at that time, two-storied houses being supplemented with three-storied and higher ones. The St. Sophia cathedral’s belfry can also be seen in the background.

Olga Martyniuk

Category:
Panoramas
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