The handsome Water Tower is part of the enormous Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery complex, sitting just outside its main perimeter wall.
It was designed by the architect V Sychugov and constructed to secure the monastery's supply of fresh water in 1879.
The enormous and ancient Pechersk Lavra monastery complex in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv is is the crucible in which East Slavic Orthodoxy was formed and is arguably the third most important religious community in the history Christendom behind only Monte Cassino and Mount Athos.
Kyiv Pechersk Lavra (Ukrainian: Києво-Печерська лавра; Russian: Киeво-Печерская лавра), also known as the Kiev Monastery of the Caves, was founded as a cave monastery in 1051, since which time it has usually been a preeminent centre of Orthodox Christianity in Eastern Europe. Together with the Saint Sophia Cathedral a few kilometres away, it is inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Among others, the remains of Imperial Prime Minister Peter Stolypin, assassinated at the Opera in the city centre, lie at rest here.
While remaining a major cultural and tourist attraction, the monastery has been active again as a religious community since the 1980s, having been shut down by the Soviet authorities in 1928 and turned into a museum-park. Nowadays, there are now over 100 monks in residence.
According to the Primary Chronicle, in the early 11th century, Anthony, an Orthodox monk from Esphigmenon monastery on Mount Athos, originally from Liubech of the Principality of Chernihiv, returned to Rus' and settled in Kiev as a missionary of monastic tradition to Kievan Rus'. He chose a cave at the Berestov Mount that overlooked the River Dnipro and a community of disciples soon grew. Prince Iziaslav I of Kiev ceded the whole mount to the Anthonite monks who founded a monastery built by architects from Constantinople.
Currently, the jurisdiction over the site is divided between the state museum, National Kyiv-Pechersk Historic-Cultural Preserve, and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate as the site of the chief monastery of that Church and the residence of its leader, Onufrius, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine.
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Viewed the grounds of the Ukrainian National Museum of the History of World War Two, in which it stands, the Motherland Monument (Ukrainian: Батьківщина-Мати, Russian: Родина-мать) is a monumental statue in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. The sculpture is a part of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War.
The stainless steel statue stands 62 metres tall and sits on the museum’s main building; the overall structure is 102 metres high including its base, and weighs 560 tonnes. The sword in the statue's right hand is 16 metres long and weighs 9 tonnes, with the left hand holding up a 13 by 8 metre shield with the State Emblem of the Soviet Union. Initially the image of the statue was drawn by Yevgeny Vutchetich from Ukrainian painter Nina Danyleiko, after the design was taken over by Borodai from another Ukrainian sculptor Halyna Kalchenko, a daughter of the Prime Minister of Ukraine Nikifor Kalchenko. The sword of the statue was cut because the tip of the sword was higher than the cross of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra.
In the 1970s, a shipload of Communist Party officials and Soviet sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich looked across at the hills by the Lavra and decided the panorama needed a war memorial. Vuchetich had designed the other two most famous giant Soviet war memorials, ‘The Motherland Calls’ in Volgograd and the East Berlin sculpture of a Soviet soldier carrying a German infant. Vuchetich died in 1974, however, and the design of the memorial was afterwards substantially reworked and completed under the guidance of Vasyl Borodai.
Final plans for the statue were finalised in 1978, with construction on an expensive and always controversial project beginning in 1979. The statue was opened in 1981 in a ceremony attended by Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev.
In modern-day Kyiv, the statue remains controversial, with some claiming it should be pulled down and its metal used for more functional purposes. Financial shortages mean that the flame, which uses up to 400 m3 of gas per hour, can only burn on the biggest national holidays, and rumours persist that the statue is built on unstable foundations, something strongly denied by the Kyiv local government.
In April 2015, the parliament of Ukraine outlawed Soviet and Communist symbols, street names and monuments, in a ‘decommunisation’ attempt, but World War II monuments are excluded from these laws. Director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance Volodymyr Viatrovych stated in February 2018 that the state emblem of the Soviet Union on the shield of the monument should be removed according to the decommunisation laws. To date however, it has still not been removed.
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The evening gloaming gathers at the Lavrska Street trolleybus stop by the enormous Pechersk Lavra monastery complex in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.
The Great Lavra Tower dominates the shot, with the Water Tower low and on the left, and the tower of the Church of the Resurrection centre of shot. The handsome low green building is at 23 Lavrska Street.
The Great Lavra bell tower is one of the most notable features of the Kyiv skyline. 96.5 metres in height, it was built in 1731–45, and was designed in the neo-classical style by the architect Johann Gottfried Schädel.
The handsome Water Tower was designed by the architect V Sychugov and constructed to secure the monastery's supply of fresh water in 1879.
The Church of the Resurrection, also known as the Afghan Church because of its proximity and links to the Afghanistan War Memorial immediately outside, was built in 1696-8, with the current tower added in 1867.
The enormous and ancient Pechersk Lavra monastery complex is is the crucible in which East Slavic Orthodoxy was formed and is arguably the third most important religious community in the history Christendom behind only Monte Cassino and Mount Athos.
Kyiv Pechersk Lavra (Ukrainian: Києво-Печерська лавра; Russian: Киeво-Печерская лавра), also known as the Kiev Monastery of the Caves, was founded as a cave monastery in 1051, since which time it has usually been a preeminent centre of Orthodox Christianity in Eastern Europe. Together with the Saint Sophia Cathedral a few kilometres away, it is inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Among others, the remains of Imperial Prime Minister Peter Stolypin, assassinated at the Opera in the city centre, lie at rest here.
While remaining a major cultural and tourist attraction, the monastery has been active again as a religious community since the 1980s, having been shut down by the Soviet authorities in 1928 and turned into a museum-park. Nowadays, there are now over 100 monks in residence.
According to the Primary Chronicle, in the early 11th century, Anthony, an Orthodox monk from Esphigmenon monastery on Mount Athos, originally from Liubech of the Principality of Chernihiv, returned to Rus' and settled in Kiev as a missionary of monastic tradition to Kievan Rus'. He chose a cave at the Berestov Mount that overlooked the River Dnipro and a community of disciples soon grew. Prince Iziaslav I of Kiev ceded the whole mount to the Anthonite monks who founded a monastery built by architects from Constantinople.
Currently, the jurisdiction over the site is divided between the state museum, National Kyiv-Pechersk Historic-Cultural Preserve, and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate as the site of the chief monastery of that Church and the residence of its leader, Onufrius, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.
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Walking through the grounds of the Ukrainain National Museum of the Second World War, I stumbled across a choir of teenage girls singing the country's national anthem, being filmed by a very professional crew with all the kit. I never go to the full story, and I wonder if they were recording something for TV closedown (if such things still exist)?
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A couple is married in the Dormition Cathedral in Kyiv, capital of Ukraine, crowned as kings and queens according to Orthodox tradition.
Kyiv’s Dormition Cathedral (Ukrainian: Успенський собор) was originally built in 1073–8 during the golden age of Kievan Rus’. At the end of the 11th century many additions to the cathedral were built, with more cupolas and decorative elements in the Cossack Baroque style added in the 17th Century.
In the 1930s, Stalin had flattened any church in Kyiv he could find and excuse for, and although the Dormition Cathedral survived that, it was blown up by the Red Army in its scorched earth operation of 16-17 September 1941 in advance of the Nazi German capture of the city, along with much of the city centre. After Ukrainian independence, reconstruction of the cathedral began in 1998 and was completed in time for its reconsecration during the Ukrainian Independence Day ceremonies in August 2000. This frenetic pace saw the work completed without serious scientific research and using modern materials. Restoration work continues on the cathedral’s interior.
Kyiv Pechersk Lavra (Ukrainian: Києво-Печерська лавра; Russian: Киeво-Печерская лавра), also known as the Kiev Monastery of the Caves, was founded as a cave monastery in 1051, since which time it has usually been a preeminent centre of Orthodox Christianity in Eastern Europe. Together with the Saint Sophia Cathedral a few kilometres away, it is inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Among others, the remains of Imperial Prime Minister Peter Stolypin, assassinated at the Opera in the city centre, lie at rest here.
While remaining a major cultural and tourist attraction, the monastery has been active again as a religious community since the 1980s, having been shut down by the Soviet authorities in 1928 and turned into a museum-park. Nowadays, there are now over 100 monks in residence.
According to the Primary Chronicle, in the early 11th century, Anthony, an Orthodox monk from Esphigmenon monastery on Mount Athos, originally from Liubech of the Principality of Chernihiv, returned to Rus' and settled in Kiev as a missionary of monastic tradition to Kievan Rus'. He chose a cave at the Berestov Mount that overlooked the River Dnipro and a community of disciples soon grew. Prince Iziaslav I of Kiev ceded the whole mount to the Anthonite monks who founded a monastery built by architects from Constantinople.
Currently, the jurisdiction over the site is divided between the state museum, National Kyiv-Pechersk Historic-Cultural Preserve, and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate as the site of the chief monastery of that Church and the residence of its leader, Onufrius, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia and the Internet Encyclopaedia of Ukraine.
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