THE GOLDEN DUCAT
The café was in the basement of a building on the corner of Rynok Square on Ruska vulytsia (Rus Street, or Ruthenian Street). Rus was the ninth-century name for the land of the later-to-be Ukrainians. The café was newly remodeled but with an old history – the history of a ghost that had haunted the spot for centuries. A golden ducat from the fifteenth century had been found during excavation for the remodeling. So it wasn’t named after the image in a Bohdan-Ihor Antonych poem – the golden ducat of the moon. They even had put a glass mirrored ceiling in the café with the image of a spirit above it – a reminder of the otherworldly presence that most people couldn’t see. Some of the locals called the café – Café Pryvyd (Café Ghost). It really only served coffee, melted choco
