So, I spent nine days in my native city Kiev. Perhaps not enough, but I wanted to speed up my moving to the next destinations. Visited many old familiar places and the graves. Met few relatives and friends -- few because not many left. Kiev did change, perhaps for the better. The city is clean, many old buildings have been and are being renovated. And the construction boom is in full swing -- not less, maybe more than in Moscow. At the same time I noticed the new distinctly Kievan architectural style. I would call it neoeclecticism or pseudo antique. In the old city areas the new buildings are built in a style similar to the surrounding edifices -- mainly of the turn of the 19/20 centuries time. And they are enhanced by the metal details (balcony railings, hoods, etc.) obviously from one or more workshops which are especially fond of art deco style.
But in spite of those positive developments (and I do not mention the negative ones) I did not have a strong "nostalgic click". I.e. I would not like to return to live here even with a good income.
From Kiev I went by train to Suceava, Romania. After exploring the painted churches of Southern Bukovina (15-16 centuries with remarkably well preserved frescos both inside and outside) I moved to Transylvania: Sighisoara, Sibiu, Brasov. This is the country of the infamous Vlad Tepes better known as Count Dracula. This poor guy maybe just wanted to make donations to the neighborhood's depleted blood bank. But he did not hire a proper PR company -- so they gave him a bad publicity. So now I am visiting some medieval castles which claim to be Dracula's own -- though there is doubt he has ever been there.
Anyway in couple of days I am going to Bucharest and later to Bulgaria.
So with the best wishes after visiting Dracula's castle
your Leo
Itak, ya provyol v svoyom rodnom Kieve 9 dney. Veroyatno nedostatochno, no ya hotel uskorit svoyo peredvizhenie k sleduyushchemu naznacheniyu. Posetil mnogie znakomye mesta i mogily. Bstretil nemnogih rodstvennikov i druzey -- nemnogih potomu chto malo ostalos.
Kiev izmenilsya, veroyatno k luchshemu. Gorod chist, mhogie zdaniya obnovleny ili obnovlyayutsya. I stroitelnyy bum v polnom razgare, he menshe, a veroyatno bolshe, chem v Moskve. V to zhe vremya ya otmetil novyy kievskiy arhitecturnyy stil. Ya by nazval ego neoeklektikoy ili psevdoctarinoy. V staroy chasti goroda novye zdaniya ctroyatsya v stile sosednih domov -- glavnym obrazom rubezha vekov 19/20. I oni ukrashayutsya metallicheskimi detalyami (balkonnye reshotki, kozyrki i t.p.) raboty odnoy ili bolee masterskich, kotorye ochen uvlekayutsya stilem modern.
But in spite of those positive developments (and I do not mention the negative ones) I did not have a strong "nostalgic click". I.e. I would not like to return to live here even with a good income.
From Kiev I went by train to Suceava, Romania. After exploring the painted churches of Southern Bukovina (15-16 centuries with remarkably well preserved frescos both inside and outside) I moved to Transylvania: Sighisoara, Sibiu, Brasov. This is the country of the infamous Vlad Tepes better known as Count Dracula. This poor guy maybe just wanted to make donations to the neighborhood's depleted blood bank. But he did not hire a proper PR company -- so they gave him a bad publicity. So now I am visiting some medieval castles which claim to be Dracula's own -- though there is doubt he has ever been there.
Anyway in couple of days I am going to Bucharest and later to Bulgaria.
So with the best wishes after visiting Dracula's castle
your Leo
Itak, ya provyol v svoyom rodnom Kieve 9 dney. Veroyatno nedostatochno, no ya hotel uskorit svoyo peredvizhenie k sleduyushchemu naznacheniyu. Posetil mnogie znakomye mesta i mogily. Bstretil nemnogih rodstvennikov i druzey -- nemnogih potomu chto malo ostalos.
Kiev izmenilsya, veroyatno k luchshemu. Gorod chist, mhogie zdaniya obnovleny ili obnovlyayutsya. I stroitelnyy bum v polnom razgare, he menshe, a veroyatno bolshe, chem v Moskve. V to zhe vremya ya otmetil novyy kievskiy arhitecturnyy stil. Ya by nazval ego neoeklektikoy ili psevdoctarinoy. V staroy chasti goroda novye zdaniya ctroyatsya v stile sosednih domov -- glavnym obrazom rubezha vekov 19/20. I oni ukrashayutsya metallicheskimi detalyami (balkonnye reshotki, kozyrki i t.p.) raboty odnoy ili bolee masterskich, kotorye ochen uvlekayutsya stilem modern.
No nesmotrya no polozhitelnye cherty (a ya ne upominayu otritsatelnyh) nichgo ne yoknulo vo mne. T.e. ya by ne hotel bernyttsa tuda zhit dazhe esli by u menya bylo mnogo deneg.
Iz Kieva poezdom ya pribyl b Suchavu (Cevernaya Rumynia). Posle obsledovania paspisannyh tserkvey Yuzhnoy Bukoviny -- 15-16 vekov s zamechatelno sohranivshimisya freskami vnutri i snaruzhi -- ya otpravilsya v Transilvaniyu: Sigishoara, Sibiu, Brashov. Eto zemli Vlada Tepesha bolee izvestnogo pod imenem grafa Drakuly. Vozmozhno bednyaga prosto hotel popolnit oskudevshie zapasy v mestnom institute perelivaniya krovi. No on ne nanyal cootvetstvuyushchey reklamnoy kompanii -- i oni emu sozdali plohuyu reputaziyu.
Tak chto nyne ya poseshchayu zamki, kotorye utverzhdayut, chto tut byl Drakula, hotya eto vesma somnitelno.
Zavtra edu v Buharest, a potom v Bolgariyu.
S nailuchshimi pozhelaniyami iz zamkov Drakuly
vash Lev
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