Some History:
Some interesting links on history:

Some books about Kiev from amazon.com:
Kiev : A Portrait, 1800-1917, Michael F. Hamm @ Amazon.com
The Jews of Moscow, Kiev and Minsk : Identity, Antisemitism, Emigration @ Amazon.com
Letters from Kiev, Solomea Pavlychko @ Amazon.com
The Beilis Transcripts : The Anti-Semitic Trial That Shook the World, Ezekiel Leikin @ Amazon.com
Kiev : A Portrait, 1800-1917
by Michael F. Hamm
The Jews of Moscow, Kiev and Minsk: Identity, Antisemitism, Emigration Letters from Kiev
by Solomea Pavlychko
The Beilis Transcripts : The Anti-Semitic Trial That Shook the World
by Ezekiel Leikin

Royal Families of Medieval Scandinavia, Flanders, and Kiev, Rupert Alen @ Amazon.com
My Darling Elia by Eugenie Melnyk @ amazon.com
The White Guard, Mikhail Bulgakov @ Amazon.com
Dynamo: Triumph and Tragedy in Nazi-Occupied Kiev, Andy Dougan @ Amazon.com
Royal Families of Medieval Scandinavia, Flanders, and Kiev
by Rupert Alen
My Darling Elia
by Eugenie Melnyk
The White Guard
by Mikhail Bulgakov
Dynamo: Triumph and Tragedy in Nazi-Occupied Kiev
by Andy Dougan