People · Kyivans in history

Famous KyivansClergy

Princes and saints, poets and aviators, patrons and adventurers — people who were born, lived or worked in Kyiv. Biographies, addresses and places to visit.

56 people
11 categories
12 centuries (X–XXI c.)

Clergy

4 people

Feodosiy of the CavesAbbot, co-founder of the Lavraбл. 1029–1074With Antoniy, the founder of the Kyiv Caves Monastery. As abbot he moved the community from the caves to the hilltop, introduced the Studite rule and laid the Dormition Cathedral.
Metropolitan IlarionMetropolitan and writerXI ст.The first native of Rus’ to become Metropolitan of Kyiv (1051) and author of the “Sermon on Law and Grace”. As a priest at Berestove he dug the cave where the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra began.
Nestor the ChroniclerMonk and chroniclerбл. 1056 – бл. 1114A monk of the Kyiv Caves Monastery, traditionally credited with the Primary Chronicle — the main source for the history of Kyivan Rus’. He rests in the Lavra’s Near Caves.
Petro MohylaMetropolitan of Kyiv1596–1647Archimandrite of the Pechersk Lavra and Metropolitan of Kyiv, founder of the Kyiv-Mohyla Collegium (1632). He restored St Sophia’s Cathedral and the Church of the Saviour at Berestove.