The Bohdan Khmelnytsky Monument (Ukrainian: Пам'ятник Богданові Хмельницькому) is a monument in Kyiv, built in 1888, dedicated to the Hetman of Zaporizhian Host Bohdan Khmelnytsky built in 1888. It is located almost at the centre of Sophia Square, which was originally the city’s main square, and remains and important fulcrum of Kyiv City Centre. It sits on the axis that unites the belltowers of St Sophia’s Cathedral and St Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery at the other end of Volodymyrs’kyi Passage.
This is where residents of Kiev met Khmelnytsky leading his Cossacks regiments through the Golden Gate into city on 23 December 1648 after his victory over Polish Army at the battle of Pyliavtsi. It was designed by Mikhail Mikeshin although it is both less elaborate than Mikeshin’s original plans, and is shorn of their overtly anti-Polish and anti-Semitic aspects. The statue was cast in 1879 in St Petersburg but not displayed in Kyiv until 1888.
St Sophia Cathedral is one of Kyiv’s most significant landmarks, dating back to the days of Kievan Rus’. Originally built in the first half of the 11th Century, it has had downs as well as ups since being sacked in 1169 and 1240, but still retains mosaics and frescos from the 11th Century. It was significantly expanded in the late 17th and 18th Centuries. The 76 metre high bell tower was built in this period.
After the October Revolution, Soviet authorities proposed demolishing the cathedral complex and turning it into a memorial park for combatants who died in the Civil War, and was only saved through the efforts of scientists and historians. It was nonetheless secularised and turned into a museum in 1934. By the 1980s, however Soviet authorities had promised to return the cathedral to the Orthodox Church, and this promise was maintained by governments of independent Ukraine, but internal divisions within Orthodoxy in the country have prevented this as of 2020. The cathedral remains a secular museum of Christianity.
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This is the refectory or dining room itself of the Refectory Church in the Pechersk Lavra monastery complex in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. The roof murals are very modern, painted at some point between 2013 and 2017 as far as I can tell.
The Refectory Church of St Anthony and Theodosius of Pechersk (Ukrainian: Трапезний собор Антонія і Феодосія Печерських) is the youngest church of the vast Pechersk Lavra monastery complex in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, built in 1895. The building was damaged in the scorched earth demolition of the centre of Kyiv carried out by the Red Army as Nazi German occupiers prepared to enter it in 1941. Repair and restoration works on the facades were generally completed in 1956, and the interior was restored in 1976-80.
Since 1990, the church has held regular services and since 1992, it has been the cathedral of Kyiv for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate.
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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St. Andrew's Church (Ukrainian: Андріївська церква) is a major Baroque church located in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. The church was constructed between 1747 and 1754, to a design by the Italian architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli. The church is part of the National Sanctuary "Sophia of Kyiv" as a landmark of cultural heritage.
The church has no bells, as according to legend, their noise would cause flooding of the left part of the city; in fact this is because the church began as a personal chapel and therefore has no parish and no need to call a congregation to worship.
St Andrew's Church overlooks the historic Podil neighbourhood, situated on a steep hill to which the church gave its current name—Andriyivska Hill, a quaint street popular with tourists.
As the church sits atop a steep hill, foundation problems have been one of the main concerns of preservationists. More recently, the foundation below the church has started to shift, causing some concerns that the church's foundation might collapse. Cracks have already appeared in the foundation, and some of the church's falling decor has been found in neighbouring areas.
The current structure of the church began when Russian Empress Elizabeth decided to construct a summer residence for herself in Kyiv, consisting of a palace and a church. Construction began in 1744 with the Empress laying the first three founding stones herself.
The Petersburg Building Chancellery first hired German architect Gottfried Johann Schädel and engineer Daniel de Bosquet to draft out the plans for the church. However, when Schädel presented his project in 1745, the Chancellery rejected it. He was replaced by head architect of the imperial court, Bartolomeo Rastrelli, who worked out a plan which was closely based on a Saint Petersburg institute.
The church was restored several times between 1917 and 1953; however worship was suspended by the Soviet government in 1932, and for some years the church was turned into the venue for one of the notorious anti-religious museums. Worship in St Andrew’s was restored during the Second World War only to be banned again in 1961. In 1992, the stylobate began to be used as a seminary by the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, which later merged into the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. In October 2018, the church was transferred to the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople as a stauropegion.
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As with many Eastern European cities, the humble tram is both a symbol and a workhorse of the Ukrainian captial, Kyiv.
This number 19 tram is trundling down Kostiantynivska Street on a warm August evening. Kostiantynivska Street is located just off Kontraktova Square, the focal point of the historic riverside Podil district.
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A classic building in Soviet Empire Style, 25 Khreshchatyk in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, is also known as the “House with a Star” or “Friendship”. It is a three-section brick residential building, built in 1954, consisting of a central 15-storey residential building, topped by a tower and a spire with a star and framed by two 9-storey “wings”. The architects were Anatoliy Dobrovolsky, Alexander Malinovsky, and Petro Petrushenko.
On construction this was Kyiv's tallest building, a position it held until 1981.
As well as being located on the city’s premier street in Khreshchatyk, the building anchors the perspective of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Street as one descends it from the Ukrainian National Opera.
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