Catalogue · ID 361

Пам'ятник Богдану Хмельницькому в Києві

Author: Національний музей історії України
Year of publication: 2026
Describes Russian colonization of peoples: Ukrainians
Publication rights: not allowed (a 2026 publication under copyright)

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Original source: old.nmiu[.]org/tsoho-dnia/2772-pamiatnyk-bohdanu-khmelnytskomu-v-kyievi

Where the knowledge base cites it

This material is cited in 3 places.

Campaigns

• The Bohdan Khmelnytsky Monument (1888)

  The pedestal bore programmatic inscriptions: "We will to be under the tsar of the east, the Orthodox one" and "To Bohdan Khmelnytsky – one and indivisible Russia"

  The monument was unveiled on 11 July 1888 on Sophia Square; the committee for its construction was headed by Mikhail Yuzefovich - an official of the Kyiv educational district and author of the memorandum that formed the basis of the Ems ukase of 1876

Procedures

• The Bohdan Khmelnytsky Monument (1888) — technique Rewriting of History

  On the pedestal of the Khmelnytsky monument (1888) the empire cast a programmatic statement about the past: on the front side stood the phrase "We will to be under the tsar of the east, the Orthodox one," attributed to the Pereiaslav Rada, and on the right - the imperial formula "To Bohdan Khmelnytsky – one and indivisible Russia"

• The Bohdan Khmelnytsky Monument (1888) — technique Territorial Marking with Imperial Symbols

  On 11 July 1888 the Russian Empire unveiled the Bohdan Khmelnytsky monument on Sophia Square in Kyiv - a sign of "unity" with Moscow: on the left side of the pedestal stood the dates "1654-1888," counting the city's history from the Pereiaslav Rada

  The committee for its construction was headed by Mikhail Yuzefovich

  …put up to tsars and tsarist minions, two of the three inscriptions were knocked off the pedestal; the remaining one was ordered removed by Hrynko, chairman of the Kyiv gubernia executive committee - academician Yefremov recorded this in his diary on 6 February 1925 - and in the end the side plaques were replaced with blank ones, while "Bohdan Khmelnytskyi 1888" was carved on the front stone