Marsiany na Khreshchatyku [Martians on Khreshchatyk]

Walking around Kyiv, it is easy to recognize numerous locations described in poems and novels of the beginning of the 20th century. The apartment numbers have changed somewhere, the facades have been painted in a new way, sometimes the street names have changed, but if you look closely, you can imagine how Tychyna and Kurbas were sitting at the same table in the ‘Cell of Arts’ on Horodetskyi, a little further away, in Pidmogilny's office, whether he was meeting or not all of artistic Kyiv, and in the basement of the ‘Continental’ hotel, irreconcilable skydivers, symbolists and spiralists met for coffee. In the evening Khreshchatyk, real ‘Martians’ were walking, and in Georgiivsky Lane, the mysterious artistic Theosophical Nine was looking for new horizons.