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Temple · Shevchenkivskyi St Sophia Cathedral The principal church of Kyivan Rus, built in the first half of the 11th century, with thirteen domes, the largest surviving set of mosaics and frescoes of its age and a Baroque…

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Musicians and performers · 1905–1986 Serge Lifar A Kyivan who led the Paris Opera Ballet for over 30 years. He sang in the St Sophia Cathedral choir and took his first ballet steps in Bronislava Nijinska’s Kyiv studio.
Patrons and entrepreneurs · 1639–1709 Ivan Mazepa …Church, St Nicholas Military Cathedral, a remodelled St Sophia and the Mohyla Academy building
Clergy · 1596–1647 Petro Mohyla …founder of the Kyiv-Mohyla Collegium (1632). He restored St Sophia’s Cathedral and the Church of the Saviour at Berestove
Princes and rulers · 1053–1125 Volodymyr Monomakh …1125, wrote the “Instruction” for his sons, and lies in St Sophia’s
Princes and rulers · бл. 978–1054 Yaroslav the Wise The prince under whom Kyiv became one of Europe’s great cities: he built the “city of Yaroslav” with the Golden Gate and St Sophia’s Cathedral, where he lies buried.

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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.

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1981 · Hryhorii Kokhan Yaroslav the Wise …and Yaroslav wins, opening the “golden age” of Rus’. St Sophia’s Cathedral was built under Yaroslav, so this is a film about the origins of the medieval Kyiv you can still see…

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