We continue to acquaint you with the Preserve’s Collections.

Take a trip to our virtual museum during your coffee or tea break.

We are pleased to present to you the photo project “Memories of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra”

This time the project is represented by the series of photos “Lavra Hermitages”.

After the secularization of monastic landholdings, the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra lost not only the major part of them, but also the right of possession of seven adscript monasteries. Only Golosiivo and Kytaivo hermitages, located on the southern outskirts of Kyiv remained at the property of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. The first one was established in the time of Petro Mohyla in 1631 in the place of the Lavra farm. By his order, the church dedicated to Great martyr John the New of Suceava was founded there, a house was built, a garden was laid out and a hermitage was created. Since then, for a century and a half, it has been transformed into a place where Pechersk archimandrites lived in the summer. The last of them, Zosima Valkevych, after his dismissal in 1786, received the Golosiivska summer residence for life governance. Shortly after his death in 1793, the hermitage was temporarily transformed into the Lavra husbandry. It was not until 1846 that Metropolitan of Kyiv Filaret (Amphiteatrov) restored the hermitage and built the brick Protection Church. Since then and until the beginning of the 20th century Golosiivo was a metropolitan summer residence, while remaining the main farmstead of the Lavra.

In Kytaivo, despite the legend of the existence of the monastery in Kyivan Rus times, the Lavra hermitage appeared there later. Documents constitute that the secluded monastery (hermitage), which was subject to the Lavra, was founded in 1716. A wooden church of St.Sergius of Radonezh was built there at the expense of Kyiv Governor Dmytro Golitsyn. In the Kytaivo hermitage there were the main Lavra agricultural lands, an almshouse for old and infirm monks, as well as a Lavra candle factory. For a long time, Kyiv-Pechersk monks were buried there. But in the early 1870s, the Transfiguration Hermitage was founded nearby, which since that time has been used as the Lavra Brethtren Cemetery.

Next week in the project “Memories of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra” you will be able to see historical photos from the series “Photographs with marginal notes”.

Let’s discover the beauties of the Preserve’s collection together!

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