Why Russian Empire Needed a Fortress and an Arsenal

Kief was city on the frontier of the russian emp of the eighteenth century. After divisions of poland, when all the a right bank ukrane was incorporated into the russia empire, kive ceased to be a frontier city. It became a city of polish culture, by the way, very interesting, then ukranian culture. When we see about rRussian plants to create the novarosa, to divide ukrane half on the nipro, we basically coming to the desuralistic idea of russia to make ke again a frontier city - that's correct. That' i very much agree to this vision. And what wa's even more notorious