Dangerous Heritage in Danger: Colonial-Imperial (Neo)classicism of the Ukrainian South
Journal: RIBA Publishing eBooks
Year: 2024

Odesa, a city with roots tracing back to a 14th-century fortress founded by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, later assimilated into the Ottoman Empire during the 15th century, holds prominence as a key port along the Black Sea. It turned out to be the third element in the trilogy of Kherson, Mykolaiv and Odesa – cities lined up in a row along the coastline by then empress of Russia, Catherine II, in the late 18th century as part of her Greek Plan 1 to colonise the Black Sea Steppe, wrested from the