Cannonballs from an 1854 bombardment by an Anglo-French squadron are still lodged in the walls of the Vorontsov Palace in Odesa — a physical trace …
The Vorontsov Palace: Cannonballs from an Anglo-French Squadron Still Lodged in the Walls
Odesa Oblast
The Dubetsky Palace “Wolf’s Den”: An Estate Named After Freud’s Most Famous Patient
The estate got its nickname “Wolf’s Den” not from wolves in the surrounding woods, but from a psychiatric diagnosis. Sergei Pankeev grew up here — …
Alexander Barracks in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi — a Fortress Against the Turks, Built in Turkish Style
The barracks were built to defend against Turkish influence — and then designed in a Turkish style. That’s neither irony nor a mistake. It was …
The Lutheran Church in Veselyi Kut is the church of the colony called Paris
There is a village in the Odesa region that first had a serial number, then a German name, then “Paris,” and only in 1945 became …
Nikonion — the Ancient City Vanishing into the Estuary
In the south of Odesa Oblast, where the steppe breaks off above the water, lie the remains of a city more than two and a …