Step Into History
Walk Kyiv in 1650
AI rebuilds Kyiv street by street, and you walk through it in your browser.
Step Into History · City walk
Khmelnytsky's Kyiv, 1650
This is Kyiv in the years after Bohdan Khmelnytsky's 1648 entry, when the city is the spiritual heart of Ruthenia and an active centre of Cossack politics, learning and trade. Visitors will see vaulted Rus' cathedrals beginning to wear new baroque gilding, the monks and presses of the Pechersk Lavra, the scholars of Mohyla's Collegium and the crowded wooden quays and merchant streets of Podil.
34 scenes — 22 streets, squares and views, 12 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Kyiv as it stood in 1650 (“Cossack Hetmanate”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Dnieper Approach
- 2. Podil Quay
- 3. Pochaina Mouth
- 4. Podil Market Square
- ↳ Fishmongers' Shed · interior
- 5. Mostova Street
- ↳ Boatwright's Loft · interior
- 6. Merchant Houses
- ↳ Merchant's Trading Room · interior
- 7. Lyadsky Bridge
- 8. Lyadsky Gate
- ↳ Gate Guardroom · interior
- 9. Uzviz Ascent
- 10. St. Michael's Monastery
- ↳ Refectory Church · interior
- 11. Saint Sophia Cathedral
- ↳ Grand Cathedral Nave · interior
- 12. Sophia Forecourt
- ↳ Sophia Chapter House · interior
- 13. Kyiv Mohyla Collegium
- ↳ Collegium Debating Hall · interior
- 14. Golden Gate
- ↳ Gate Chapel of the Saviour · interior
- 15. Velyka Vulytsia
- 16. Zamkova Hill
- 17. Kyivo-Pechersk Lavra
- ↳ Far Caves Chapel · interior
- 18. Lavra Printing Yard
- ↳ Printing Press Room · interior
- 19. Lavra Quay
- 20. Vydubychi Monastery
- ↳ Scriptorium and Icon Workshop · interior
- 21. River Ferries
- 22. Old Kyiv Hill