Did you know that

in the late 19th - early 20th century private persons offered the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra to buy from them different food products?

Thus, I. Dinits from Mohyliv-Podilskyi town traded in wheat and rye, N. Konyukhov, the owner of a winery and wholesale of grape wines in Stavropol town, called Monastery for ordering wines, Seit Ablo Pichkil from Bakhchisarai town wanted to supply the Lavra with fruit trees and bushes, Kyiv meat merchant P. Babkov was a supplier of meat for the workers of the printing-house.

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Page from the reference edition «All Kyiv» (Typography of the Joint Stock Company «Peter Barsky in Kyiv», 1901).

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