Hey, guys! It's unbelievable that we have had a real winter for a whole month. Like the one I remember from my childhood. Frost, deep snow, dazzling sunlight reflected by millions of snowflakes and ice drops, uncleaned paths, red cheeks and frozen noses, patterns of ice on frozen windows, long icicles on the roofs. I'd love this winter.
While Sonja's collection of sculptures is incomplete, we continue to look for and find them in the most unexpected corners of the city. If you gonna join us wear something warmer coz it is -10 C outside, no less!
This time Sonja went for a walk with her cousin Mary. Considering the comment from @livinguktaiwan, Sonja stayed in my palms but Mary has a warm hat, so she can safely be photographed in a snowbank near spruce.
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We are where we finished the last story about Kyiv dry jelly - in Podil. The weather was great, and during the walk, one of us was distracted time after time. Because in Podil you always meet something amazing, funny, original or at least beautiful. It is a place of youth theaters and hipster parties, street concerts and fairs, museums, bars and restaurants. A place where a variety of formats and generations coexist.
I really love it but have to stop myself :) Just one last photo (or two) of windows nicely decorated.
Our destination is Radisson Blu Kyiv Podil, where the next bronze mini-sculpture is installed. Only about 300 meters from here. Pass Kontraktova Square, and the hotel is around the corner.
Sundial by Pier Brulion
Here is it. That's... lovely. It is so tiny with all details carefully reproduced.
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[//]:# (!pinmapple 50.463919 lat 30.520449 long Pierre Brulion's Sundial d3scr)
Pierre Brulion came to Kyiv as a private teacher of French but proved to be a strong mathematician and topographer. So, in the XVIIIth century, he was invited to teach mathematics at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (now it is the oldest and most famous university in Kyiv, established in 1615!)
He created a sundial that stands in a courtyard of the academy as a training tool in math and astronomy for his students.
Sonja and Mary can't wait to go and check how does it look in real! Luckily, it's only about 200 meters. I've never been inside, so I'm excited too.
Because of the covid, only 1 entrance is opened, and I have to find where is it. I do not know exactly where the clock is located, so you have to wander between the buildings and look.
Over there, in a distance! Exactly as I've read: a white column with a green roof from the rain. Pretty big! Let's try to find a way to come closer.
The inscription says "Western Clock".
And "Southern Clock". And you know what? The time is correct! This is amazing.
On the way out I made few pictures of the place.
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Suddenly, I noticed this slogan from the Soviet epoch. It's still here and ... it's weird.
Here, the clock at the building (in distance) shows the same time (plus the time I spent here) as the Brulion's sundial.
And I just couldn't pass by these old steps...
And... it could be the end, but this is not all. According to Pierre Brulion's calculations, a sundial was made on the rotunda of the Samson fountain on Kontraktova Square. It's on the other side of the square. I'll show you:
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But who is Samson, that a rotunda has been built for him? We will find out next time. Meet you at this place. Come and join, it will be interesting!
Previous mini-symbols of Kyiv and their's stories, parts 1-15:
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