Photo, Print, Drawing View of the University.
About this Item
Title
- View of the University.
Summary
- This view of Kiev University of Saint Vladimir (now Kiev National Taras Shevchenko University) 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 university was founded in 1834. Its huge main building, seen in the left background, dates from the mid-19th century and is painted red, with the capitols and bases of columns painted black, the colors of the stripes on the Order of Saint Vladimir. The foreground shows part of the market area of Bessarabka Square. Saint Vladimir's Cathedral was built to mark the 900th anniversary of the conversion to Christianity of Kievan Rus by Prince Vladimir (or Volodymyr) Sviatoslavich, later Saint Vladimir the Great. Construction finished in 1896, when its completion was celebrated in the presence of the Russian royal family. This image shows the view from Bessarabka Square up Bibikovsky Boulevard. 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
- - 1834 to 1920
- - Cathedrals
- - Cities and towns
- - Kiev National Taras Shevchenko University
- - Plazas
- - Stores and shops
- - Street scenes
- - Universities and colleges
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
- 2021669068
Online Format
- compressed data
- image