Did you know that

many women worked in the xenial house, steam mill, economic department, and in the so-called kitchen of the nobility of the Kyiv-Pechersk Monastery during the last third of the 19th century?

Their number, depending on the season, ranged from 90 to 170 people. Women who worked temporarily in the Lavra departments performed various jobs as laundresses, cleaners in the Lavra buildings, seamstresses, and cooks. They washed dishes, worked in gardens, in the poultry house, cowshed and horse yard, cared for the sick and infirm in hospitals, received travelers, worked in the teahouse and candle factory, etc. For their work, the monastery gave them shoes and winter clothes allowance. 

Picture captions:

1. Pechersk monastery, view from the Dnipro River. Phototype by Stefan Kulzhenko in Kyiv (inv. Nr. KPL-N-6264)
2. Bank of the Dnipro River. Postcard of the early 20th century 
3.  Kyiv, Lvivska Street. Postcard of the early 20th century 

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