The fourth book of the "History of Kyiv" project is called "Capitalist Kyiv" and covers the history of the city from the second half of the 19th century. until February 1917 - the moment when the Russian Empire ceased to exist.According to the author, capitalism is a boring matter, there is nothing romantic in it, as, for example, in ancient history, or majestic, as in medieval the period of existence of Kiev. Therefore, according to Viktor Kirkevich, the best idea about the life of our capital in this era is given by a story about significant events related to Kiev, and about the people who lived in it.About the attitude of the liberator tsar towards Kiev Alexander II and his son Alexander III the Peacemaker, about the Kiev period in the life of the famous philosophers Lev Shestov and Nikolai Berdyaev, about the first researchers of the history of the city and Ukrainian church art, about Igor Sikorsky and Kazimir Malevich, who lived in Kiev and loved him, and about many other things the reader will learn from this book.