Pictures of Odesa, as it tangles with a complex web of Russian and Ukrainian heritage

Photographer Michael Robinson Chávez visits a city in Ukraine that was partly famous as a site for Russian travelers and intellectuals, but since 2022 has come under Russian attack.

Pictures of Odesa, as it tangles with a complex web of Russian and Ukrainian heritage
A monument of Soviet leader Josef Stalin sits in a statuary garden in Frumushika-Nova, Ukraine.

Photographer Michael Robinson Chávez visits a city in Ukraine that was partly famous as a site for Russian travelers and intellectuals, but since 2022 has come under Russian attack.

(Image credit: Michael Robinson Chávez for NPR)