Kyiv at the beginning of the twentieth century (22 photos)

These photos are from an album found on the Library of Congress website

They were published in the USA in 1905 by the Detroit Publishing Co.

Merchant Assembly (now European Square)

St. Michael's Monastery

Entrance to the Kiev Pechersk Lavra

Peter and Paul Cathedral (not preserved, was located on the even side of Frunze Street, near the corner of Syretskaya)

Vladimirskaya Gorka

Bohdan Khmelnitsky Square

Nikolaevsky Bridge

Kiev Pechersk Lavra, view from the left bank of the Dnieper

Kiev-Pechersk Lavra

St. Andrew's Church

St. Michael's Monastery

Nikolaevskaya Street (now Architect Gorodetsky)

Khreshchatyk

Bohdan Khmelnitsky Square

Monument to Nicholas I (instead of which Taras Shevchenko now stands)

Askold's grave

View of the University from Bessarabka

View of Podol

View of Podol

Bank of the Dnieper

Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, Far Caves

Catholic Church