HIGH CASTLE MOUNTAIN
It’s more than a hill, not quite a mountain, 413 meters high. It’s really just called “High Castle,” but that wouldn’t mean much in English. It’s the highest point in the city and a place of pilgrimage for nearly everyone who visits. The view on a clear day when fog doesn’t lie low in the city stretches across furrowed fields and the outlying dotted “three-story paradises,” as the writer Andriy Yurkevych calls them, the big gaudy houses on tiny plots of the neo-wealthy (usually by nefarious or at best questionable means) New Ukrainians. “Nobody’s lily white in this country,” a businessman once told Nicholas. “The best you can hope for is a tinge of gray.”
You can see for 20 kilometers or more on clear days. It’s name “Vysoky zamok” means “tall” or “high castle” becau
