Марсіани на Хрещатику

Walking around Kyiv, it is easy to recognize numerous locations described in poems and novels of the beginning of the 20th century. The apartment numbers have changed somewhere, the facades have been painted in a new way, sometimes the street names have changed, but if you look closely, you can imagine how Tychyna and Kurbas sat at the same table in the "Cell of Arts" on Horodetskyi, a little further, in Pidmogilny's office, whether he was meeting or not all of artistic Kyiv, and in the basement of the "Continental" hotel, irreconcilable skydivers, symbolists and spiralists met for coffee. In the evening Khreshchatyk, real "Martians" walked, and the mysterious artistic theosophical nine were looking for new horizons in Georgiivsky Lane.

Vira Ageeva's book is a journey through literary Kyiv of the beginning of the 20th century. The author will show Kyiv through the eyes of avant-garde artists, rebellious emancipators, bohemian poets, Kyiv, in which they lived and created, despite everything that was happening around, Kyiv, which survived, preserving its history and future.