The team of history researcher Akim Galimov recreates the destroyed Ukrainian palaces in 3D. This project is a chance to look at what these unique buildings once were and learn their history. In this episode – an ideal royal city in which all aesthetics, symmetry and streets are all subject to the laws of mathematics. If you look at it from above, it may seem that it is created in human form.

Producer: Akim Galimov
Author of the idea: Ruslan Sharipov
Director: Daria Sarycheva
Editor: Anastasia Gruba
Cameraman: Alexander Vyakhirev, Alexander Maslak
Editing: Tatiana Fetko
Music: Natalia Yermakova
Postproduction producer: Julian Akulov
Executive producer: Stanislav Zurakhov

VFX Postproduction: Maxim Arsenyuk, Maxim Tkachenko
Architects of 3D reconstructions: Andrey Kharkhalis, Ilya Litvinchuk, Natalia Ryazanova, Igor Luchko, Maxim Nedostrelov

The 2021 project won the PITCH UA 3 socially important content competition, organized by Media Resources Management (MRM) with the support of the Transformation Communications Activity (TCA) and Public Confidence Building (UCBI), funded by the United States Agency for International Development. (USAID) and with the assistance of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine.

0:00 Intro
0:26 Zhovkva, Lviv region
2:10 Features of ideal cities
2:44 Vynnyky settlement
3:45 Stanislav Zholkevsky and construction of the castle
7:55 The dungeon of the castle
9:44 View of the palace from the inside
11:04 Death of Zholkevsky in a military campaign
13:34 Greatgrandson of Jan Sobieski
17:18 What was the palace like on the outside
17:53 The main hall and the royal bedroom
19:23 Palace Park
21:25 Influence of Sobieski on the development of the city
Zhovkva, Lviv region, Stanislav Zholkevsky, Jan Sobieski, king, kingdom, royal city, castle, palace, commander, commander, Vynnyky settlement, ideal city