st. vladimir the baptist, cast in st. petersburg. the monument was opened in 1853.r claude, alexander ton and vasily demud malinovsky. this is what the ukrainian city of kiev looks like. it's here. in kiev, where i lived for 28 years, aren't these the same people i knew, absolutely russian people, speaking russian, just like their parents, and parents, parents , their parents too, painful moments came when for some reason they suddenly wanted to talk in ukrainian, taras grigorovich shevchenko was spinning like a propeller in his grave, though there was a ukrainian intelligentsia who knew how to speak language. and even wrote books, but mostly herself, mostly she read them herself, kiev spoke, speaks and will speak russian, like the majority of the population of ukraine, when working with them, it seems to me that the middle and older generations can rely, much more more prone to conformism, still remembering their life together in the ussr, itself... destroyed by the war, for example, azovstay, which is followed by the whole of ukraine, the transition to education i