Viktoriia Grivina
@brams884.bsky.social
Writer, researcher of Kharkiv, PhD student at St Andrews University.
Tomorrow will be the Remembrance Day of the victims of Holodomor. How strange to stumble across the park exhibition in Edinburgh where Kharkiv is mentioned in such precisely in its darkest hour.
November 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Tomorrow will be the Remembrance Day of the victims of Holodomor. How strange to stumble across the park exhibition in Edinburgh where Kharkiv is mentioned in such precisely in its darkest hour.
This Kharkiv cat has exactly the character for a successful Monday.
November 17, 2025 at 9:21 AM
This Kharkiv cat has exactly the character for a successful Monday.
This pretty lady lives on the street where Mary Shelley lived 🐈⬛.
November 16, 2025 at 10:08 AM
This pretty lady lives on the street where Mary Shelley lived 🐈⬛.
Photos of a friend’s Kyiv Art studio hit by a russian drone. Then, a young talented poet Serhii Naumenko, resident of my first art residency killed on the Zaporizzhia front. We all met in 2022 by Chetemosh river, made art and ate pizza by the water, wrote. Talked about future. I have no words left 👇
November 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Photos of a friend’s Kyiv Art studio hit by a russian drone. Then, a young talented poet Serhii Naumenko, resident of my first art residency killed on the Zaporizzhia front. We all met in 2022 by Chetemosh river, made art and ate pizza by the water, wrote. Talked about future. I have no words left 👇
This Kharkiv cat is your Friday deadlines administrator.
November 14, 2025 at 8:15 AM
This Kharkiv cat is your Friday deadlines administrator.
A burnt book of poetry at the Kharkiv’s civil enterprise hit by Russian Shaheed drones in central Kharkiv yesterday. 20 residential buildings were damaged.
November 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
A burnt book of poetry at the Kharkiv’s civil enterprise hit by Russian Shaheed drones in central Kharkiv yesterday. 20 residential buildings were damaged.
My grandpa’s town has been recently attacked by the russian military again. I watched clouds of black smoke rise above the alley where I biked every day to the lake on summers. Grandpa was so proud to have built this town and its power plant. At nights the plant roared. It was scary and magical.
November 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
My grandpa’s town has been recently attacked by the russian military again. I watched clouds of black smoke rise above the alley where I biked every day to the lake on summers. Grandpa was so proud to have built this town and its power plant. At nights the plant roared. It was scary and magical.
How I signed an email as a Ukrainian: 🫠
November 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
How I signed an email as a Ukrainian: 🫠
This distinguished Odesan gentleman wishes all a quiet Friday.
November 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
This distinguished Odesan gentleman wishes all a quiet Friday.
This Kharkiv cat is a spirit of autumn and a great yoga instructor.
November 6, 2025 at 8:21 AM
This Kharkiv cat is a spirit of autumn and a great yoga instructor.
This Kharkiv cat has all the energy you need for the day.
November 5, 2025 at 8:44 AM
This Kharkiv cat has all the energy you need for the day.
These Kharkiv cats are your spirits of past, present, and future.
November 3, 2025 at 8:56 AM
These Kharkiv cats are your spirits of past, present, and future.
Guess which culture this exhibition at Victoria and Albert Museum Dundee belongs to? Hint, not Ukrainian. Yet, there are always connections between women, preservation of traditions and embroidery.
November 2, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Guess which culture this exhibition at Victoria and Albert Museum Dundee belongs to? Hint, not Ukrainian. Yet, there are always connections between women, preservation of traditions and embroidery.
Register for our next English book club with a Kharkiv heart. Link below:
November 1, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Register for our next English book club with a Kharkiv heart. Link below:
The dreamy passage of the crescent capitalism is now a quiet space of mobile repairs and accessories sales.
October 31, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The dreamy passage of the crescent capitalism is now a quiet space of mobile repairs and accessories sales.
We have talked about arcades with students today. No one could recall the most famous arcade in Kharkiv - known today as Kids’ World. The construction started in 1914, but WW1 changed the plans. By 1925 when the arcade was completed, trade and flaneurs weren’t on the agenda and👇
October 31, 2025 at 7:17 PM
We have talked about arcades with students today. No one could recall the most famous arcade in Kharkiv - known today as Kids’ World. The construction started in 1914, but WW1 changed the plans. By 1925 when the arcade was completed, trade and flaneurs weren’t on the agenda and👇
Ukrainian paints are conquering art shops of Edinburgh.
October 31, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Ukrainian paints are conquering art shops of Edinburgh.
A reader sent me this photo, and that’s exactly the vibe I put into this book. Thank you ❤️.
October 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
A reader sent me this photo, and that’s exactly the vibe I put into this book. Thank you ❤️.
Kharkiv streets follow me in the dreams. A friend suggested putting a fireplace in my apartment, when all the energy is destroyed. It’s absolutely illegal. But so is for the russians to destroy our homes.
October 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Kharkiv streets follow me in the dreams. A friend suggested putting a fireplace in my apartment, when all the energy is destroyed. It’s absolutely illegal. But so is for the russians to destroy our homes.
This Kharkiv cat works in movies and didn’t want to be photographed so that we didn’t steal his soul. Wise.
October 26, 2025 at 8:16 AM
This Kharkiv cat works in movies and didn’t want to be photographed so that we didn’t steal his soul. Wise.
While russian military are threatening Kharkiv with another ridiculous sounding weapon (‘oreshnik’🥴🌰), here’s a chilling Kharkiv cat doppleganger of @number10cat.bsky.social.
October 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM
While russian military are threatening Kharkiv with another ridiculous sounding weapon (‘oreshnik’🥴🌰), here’s a chilling Kharkiv cat doppleganger of @number10cat.bsky.social.
This Kharkiv cat is Friday business planner.
October 24, 2025 at 9:15 AM
This Kharkiv cat is Friday business planner.
This Kharkiv kittler wishes all an energetic week.
October 23, 2025 at 9:01 AM
This Kharkiv kittler wishes all an energetic week.
Sometimes traveling to Europe as a Ukrainian, I feel like that rabbit from an antique shop.
October 22, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Sometimes traveling to Europe as a Ukrainian, I feel like that rabbit from an antique shop.
Four russian guided bombs fall on private Kharkiv houses. It is a green neighbourhood, my parents’. Quiet streets, shops and parks. Just like the area in Vienna where I walk serenely. Otto Wagner’s church in the setting sun. Five hours before explosions in Kharkiv.
October 21, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Four russian guided bombs fall on private Kharkiv houses. It is a green neighbourhood, my parents’. Quiet streets, shops and parks. Just like the area in Vienna where I walk serenely. Otto Wagner’s church in the setting sun. Five hours before explosions in Kharkiv.