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Places 3

• Temple · Pecherskyi Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra A monastery founded in 1051 in caves above the Dnipro: the Dormition Cathedral, the Trinity Gate Church, the Great Bell Tower and underground passages with saints' relics.
• Museum · Pecherskyi Museum of Theater, Music and Cinema of Ukraine in Kyiv Founded in 1923, the Museum of Theater, Music and Cinema of Ukraine at the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra holds over 226,000 items, from 1816 playbills to folk instruments.
• Museum · Pecherskyi Holodomor Genocide Museum Ukraine's national memorial to the victims of the 1932–1933 Holodomor on the slopes by the Lavra: the 30-metre Candle of Memory, the girl with ears of wheat and the Alley of Black…

People 5

• Clergy · бл. 1029–1074 Feodosiy of the Caves Abbot, co-founder of the Lavra
• Patrons and entrepreneurs · 1639–1709 Ivan Mazepa The hetman who made Kyiv a showcase of “Mazepa Baroque”: the Lavra’s stone walls, All Saints Church, St Nicholas Military Cathedral, a remodelled St Sophia and the Mohyla Academy…
• Clergy · XI ст. Metropolitan Ilarion …priest at Berestove he dug the cave where the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra began
• Clergy · бл. 1056 – бл. 1114 Nestor the Chronicler A 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.
• Clergy · 1596–1647 Petro Mohyla Archimandrite 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…

Eras 1

• 10th – mid-13th c. Kyivan Rus Kyiv was the capital of Rus, the "mother of Rus cities". Under Volodymyr the Great and Yaroslav the Wise it became one of the largest and richest cities in Europe at the time.

Photo memories 4

• 1870s–1880s · Lavrska Street, Pechersk The Lavra above Pechersk The Kyiv Pechersk Lavra photographed by Yosyp Kordysh: the Great Lavra Bell Tower, the Clock Tower and the domes of the Dormition Cathedral rise above the roofs of Pechersk. The…
• 1890s · The Dnipro by Pechersk The Lavra from the Dnipro The Kyiv Pechersk Lavra on the green bluffs of the right bank, as passengers on Dnipro steamers saw it. Above the trees rise the Great Lavra Bell Tower and the domes of the…
• 1942 · Kyiv Pechersk Lavra Ruins of the Dormition Cathedral The Kyiv Pechersk Lavra in 1942: on the left the ruins of the Dormition Cathedral, blown up on 3 November 1941, on the right the Church of Saints Anthony and Theodosius, with the…
• 1958 · Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, Upper Lavra Ruins of the Dormition Cathedral A 1958 colour slide of the ruins of the Dormition Cathedral of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, blown up on 3 November 1941; the Refectory Church is on the right. The cathedral was…

Magazine 2

• Kyiv life · July 1, 2014 Symbols of Kyiv: The Stories Behind the City's Icons …of theories: one says on the grounds of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, the other on Bibikovskyi Boulevard (today's Taras Shevchenko Boulevard) for the visit of Tsar Nicholas I. Most…
• Kyiv life · March 10, 2014 Kytaieve: Kyiv's Hidden Valley of Ponds and Caves …century. In the 15th century, monks of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra founded a cave monastery on Kytai Hill, along with an above-ground Lavra skete (hermitage). It was closed in 1930…