Kiev : Una fortaleza sobre el abismo

Three years after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Elena Kostioukovitch leads us through the boulevards and squares, the monuments and palaces of her hometown, Kyiv, transforming them into the stage for an intense narrative that intertwines history, literature, culture, and personal memory. The history of Ukraine is replete with tragedies, beginning with the Mongol invasions in the Middle Ages and extending through the atrocities committed by Stalinist terror in the 1930s and the subsequent devastating Nazi invasion, culminating in the current resistance and resilience of the Ukrainian people in the face of the war unleashed by Vladimir Putin. But alongside History with a capital H, Kostioukovitch recounts episodes from his own family history, such as the murder of his great-grandparents in the Babi Yar massacre in 1941 or the risky rescue of paintings from the destroyed Dresden art gallery carried out by his grandfather in the forties, while reviving numerous pages of his country's rich literary heritage, where names like Gogol and Bulgakov stand out.