Luigi and Mokryna is one of Kyiv’s most touching and romantic monuments. It tells a real love story that survived the Second World War and more than sixty years of separation.
The monument portrays Mokryna Yurzuk, a Ukrainian woman, and Luigi Pedutto, an Italian man. They met and fell in love in 1943 at a prisoner-of-war camp in Austria. After the war, they were forced to part ways and lost contact for decades. Sixty years later, they found each other again through a television programme. The sculpture captures the emotional moment of their reunion in bronze.
Today, the monument stands as a symbol of love that endures time, distance and borders. Couples often stop here for photos, drawn by the remarkable story behind it.
You’ll find the monument in Mariinskyi Park, just a five-minute walk from the Mariinskyi Palace, the ceremonial residence of the President of Ukraine.
Photo: mistokyia website
