Ground excursion "secrets of kiev business" from the travel company "matei travel"

on the excursion, you will learn how the capital of the entrepreneurs of the sweetest city in europe was born and grew, remember the big names and secrets of the richest kievans, see the legacy of patrons of the past and learn about their present no less wealthy descendants.

the economic miracle of kiev began with big business, which was represented by brick kings, jewelry virtuosos, movie magnates, forest millionaires, beer barons, sausage manufacturers, stockists, showmen and pharmacists. they all turned the city into an industrial giant with their own unique stories of the fall and rise of their capital.

but over all of them were the parents of the kiev business - sugar producers, it was they who made kiev known to the whole world. the city was so rich that the main dynasties of the capital became founders, guardians and patrons of the arts, arranged a competition among themselves - who would help the sick and needy more with the scope of their donation, thereby amazing the townspeople and guests of the city.

during the tour you will see and learn:

• what does the residence of the most famous kiev pharmacist look like?
• where was the first private business school in kiev located and who studied there.
• what the monument to the traditions of patronage looks like was built by six architects.
• as a banker accidentally founded the first financial pyramid of the city.
• when the dump turned into a flourishing center of illegal trade;
• why a timber merchant built the best pedagogical museum in europe.
• the triumph and financial tragedies of the founder of the largest university.
• why was there no "dry law" in the oldest toilet in the city?
• the first educational institution for the first ukrainian air tycoon.
• the street where the richest dynasties of ukraine lived.
• as the founder of the kiev stock exchange, he saved the author of the anthem of ukraine.
• where the owner of the largest circus in europe lived.
• where did the author of the first ukrainian skyscraper start his own business?
• the building where the criminal who changed the economic development of tsarist russia was born.
• the residence of the brick "king" who planned free medicine in kiev.