Place with dark spirit

Parnikoza I.Yu.

“ Mr. Head of the Territory, order to find a suitable place for the cemetery to bury the corpses of executed criminals in view of the lack of this place on Lysaya Gora, where court sentences for convicted criminals are being executed”

From the secret letter of the Kyiv police chief of the councils of Kyiv City Council, 1910 (Protsenko, 1994)

In this chapter, we review the history of Lysa Gora (Bold Hill) – the site of executions during the period of political reaction in the Russian Empire.