Did you know that in the autumn of 1932, Kost’ Moschenko, an employee of the All-Ukrainian Art Restoration and Reproduction Workshops, made measurements and drawings of the Refectory of the St. Nicholas Military Cathedral in Pechersk district?

The architectural monument was inspected at the request of the Kyiv Regional Inspectorate for the Protection of Cultural Monuments on August 20, 1932, to draw up a damage report on dismantling the apse and breaking windows. The inspectorate was to use the documents to refer the case to the military prosecutor.

Restoration workshops spent more than 500 rubles on the work done.

The refectory of “Great Nicholas” remained intact in 1934, when St. Nicholas Church was destroyed by order of the Soviet authorities. However, in the early 1960^s, before the construction of the Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren, the Baroque monument was dismantled.

Anna Yanenko

Captions to illustrations:
Fig. 1. Refectory of St. Nicholas Military Cathedral. Photograph of 1932 (From the collection of the Institute of Manuscripts of Volodymyr Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine) 
Fig. 2. Refectory of St. Nicholas Military Cathedral
Fig. 3. In the courtyard of St. Nicholas Military Cathedral. The early 1930s (From the collection of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra National Preserve, inv. № KPL-N-3635)