A 26-year-old officer, Kostiantyn Ksido, married a 37-year-old countess, Kateryna Levashova — deaf-mute, no longer young, and unattractive by contemporaries’ accounts, but the owner of …
Sharivka Castle earned its nickname “Sugar Castle” the honest way: the estate landowner Olkhovsky began building was later bought out by the Koenig barons, sugar …
The castle in Bilokrynytsia came to Count Oleksandr Voronin not through inheritance or construction, but through a public auction in 1866 — after the previous …
Between 1925 and 1933, the Tarnovsky Palace in Kachanivka housed the Vorovsky children’s commune — and, according to accounts, the children played with bones dug …
Ihnatii Vitoslavskyi, a Polish nobleman and crown quartermaster, built one of Ukraine’s rarest examples of Neo-Gothic architecture in Cherniatyn — a palace with crenellated cornices, …
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 …
At a depth of 18 ft (5.5 m), Bohunskyi Quarry hits a thermocline — a sharp temperature drop where warm, clear water turns icy cold. …
According to one version of events, mining of the pegmatite deposit at Yelyseiivka began as early as the German occupation during World War II — …
The “Dnipro Maldives” isn’t an official recreation zone — it’s an active industrial site: Vilnohirsk Quarry still mines zircon-rutile-ilmenite ore and quartz sand today, and …
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 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 …