Mykola Blazhkov, Kherson’s mayor and a member of Russia’s State Duma, built himself a “castle” near the city park with his own resources — and …
Blazhkov House: A Mayor’s Castle Where He Was Executed in His Own City
Estates and manors
Livadia Palace: Where Ukraine’s Fate Was Decided Without Ukraine
In February 1945, in Livadia Palace’s White Hall, the leaders of the United States, Britain, and the USSR held a conference that shaped the borders …
The Kharytonenko-Lishchynsky Palace in Kyianytsia: An Estate That Survived Two World Wars, But Not This One
The two-story palace in Kyianytsia, just 10.5 miles (17 km) from the Russian border, survived the 1917 revolution, two world wars, and the entire Soviet …
The Galagan Palace in Sokyryntsi: A Mansion Built by a Traitor’s Great-Grandson
In 1716, Peter I granted the village of Sokyryntsi to the Galagan family — as a reward for treason. Colonel Hnat Galagan of Pryluky switched …
The Branicki Winter Palace in Bila Tserkva — an Art School in a Neoclassical Shell
In the center of Bila Tserkva, on Oleksandriiskyi Boulevard, stands a two-story neoclassical building with an Ionic portico. From the street, it looks restrained, almost …
The Tyszkiewicz Palace in Brody — 1912 Neoclassicism in Stari Brody
Brody is a town with an exceptionally rich architectural legacy: a 17th-century fortress, the Potocki palace, synagogues, townhouses. And amid all of it — on …
The Badeni Palace in Busk — Two Hundred Years on a Hill Above the Buh
The palace at the center of Busk is more than two hundred years old. It has outlasted three states, two owning families, fires, a military …
Horodetsky House — the Architect Built It, Then Sold It Ten Years Later to Fund His Trips to Africa
Seeing the plot on the steep slope above Bankova St., a colleague of Horodetsky’s told him bluntly: “Forgive me, but you must be out of …
Countess Uvarova’s House in Vorzel — the Quiet of Dacha Art Nouveau Among the Pines
Vorzel is known as a resort suburb of Kyiv, with pine-scented air and old dachas. But among them are houses that aren’t just old — …
The Shuvalov Palace in Talne — the Only Work by a Danish Architect in Ukraine
Around a bend in a small Cherkasy town: three towers, one bearing a coat of arms with a unicorn, brick from Denmark, roof tiles from …
The Mścichowski Estate in Seleznivka — the Only Castle in the Luhansk Region, on Occupied Land
In the middle of the industrial Donbas, amid mine shafts and slag heaps, stands a house that shouldn’t be here. Three façades, each looking like …