About the book The Ancient Kyiv, called then The Mother of all Russian cities had the Golden Gate the main city entrance, constructed in the eleventh century, and reconstructed in the twentieth century. Thats why the book was named after two famous Golden Gates of Kyiv and San Francisco. This is the first book of poems written in English by the bilingual poet. Some poems of this book, written in Kyiv, were translated from Russian by the author, the rest are written originally in English.