Great Podile Fire in 1811
The Podil Great Fire of 1811 ( Ukrainian Подільська пожежа 1811 року / Podilska poschescha 1811 roku ) was one of the largest fire disasters in the Ukrainian capital Kiev . He destroyed large parts of the Podil district .
Course, damage and loss
The fire began around noon on July 9, 1811 in the courtyard of the merchant Anton Owdijewa ( Антон Овдієва ) near Nikolai Prytyska Church and spread quickly due to the dry, hot weather, winding, narrow streets and closely packed wooden houses the entire lower town. The fire, whose thick smoke could still be seen 130 km away, lasted until July 11, 1811. Around 30 people, including women and children, monks and nuns, died in the fire. He destroyed over 2000 houses, twelve churches and three monasteries. Only a few churches and a few houses survived the city fire .
trigger
There are only speculations about the cause of the fire. It was rumored that the fire was started by French spies prior to the Napoleonic Russian campaign of 1812 .
reconstruction
After the fire, it was mainly the Kiev city architect Andrei Ivanovich Melenski , who lives in Podil, who rebuilt Podil with numerous new buildings in the classical style. An estimate of the cost of the reconstruction work by Melensky on August 28, 1811 amounted to a total of 23,685 rubles. When the quarter was rebuilt, the narrow streets were replaced by wider, right-angled streets, which still characterize the street network of the quarter (see picture). Therefore, the houses that survived the fire at that time are mostly easy to recognize today by their front not facing the street.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Central State Archives of Ukraine, Kiev - 200th anniversary of the great fire in Kiev Podil ; last accessed on April 8, 2014 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ Podolsky Fire 1811 on Kiev Encyclopedia ; last accessed on April 7, 2014 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ How Kiev burned on interesniy.kiev.ua ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; last accessed on April 7, 2014 (Russian)
- ↑ A Brief History of Kiev (the official version of the history of Kiev) ( Memento of February 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ); last accessed on April 7, 2014 (Russian)
Coordinates: 50 ° 27 ′ 47 ″ N , 30 ° 31 ′ 19 ″ E