History of Kyiv (1811–1917)

The history of Kyiv from the 1811 Great Fire of Podil until the Kiev November uprising (1917), causing the outbreak of the Ukrainian War of Independence (1917–1921), encompasses most of the 19th century until the collapse of the Russian Empire during the First World War. The city of Kiev (now Kyiv) was fundamentally reconstructed, and then underwent significant Russification due to various demographical developments, as well as cultural and social-economic policies of the local, regional and Imperial administrations. Simultaneously, it became a symbol of the Ukrainian National Revival and a centre of emerging Ukrainian nationalism (although here it competed with Lviv in Austrian Galicia), which resulted in Kyiv becoming the capital city of the revolutionary Ukrainian People's Republic and its Central Rada in 1917.