Did you know that iconostasis of St. Nicholas Church of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, as well as the Trinity Gate Church and the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross, was “decorated” with icons on the side of the altar.
Dear friends! Did you know that to bake phosphorus one could use the flour of the highest grade only?
It is believed that the fortress tower in the southern part of the Upper Lavra defensive walls was built at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries (Fig. 1). However, the detailed evidence of it had not been found out until the middle of the 18th century.
On November 30, 2021, the second part of the International Scientific and Practical Online Conference “World Heritage Sites: Sustainable Development Practices for Urban Heritage” (Kyiv, 2020) was held on the platform of the Media Center of the Directorate-General for Rendering Services to Diplomatic Missions. The organizers of the event are the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine and the National Preserve “Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra”.
Dear friends! Following our last week announcement, we begin telling you the detailed story about the process of reconstrution of the Dormition Cathedral, the Great Pechersk Church, which lasted during 1998-2000.
Dear friends! We continue introducing the items of the Fund collection of the National Preserve “Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra”. Today we would like to speak about silver gilded chalice of 1755 (KPL-M-9518). It was contributed to the Trinity-Hospital Monastery of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra by book-keeper Ivestion.
Did you know that in autumn, 1930, the Administration of Lavra’s State Historical and Cultural Preserve – All-Ukrainian Museum Town, initiated the petition concerning purchasing the car for the museum institution? The petition was sent to the People’s Commissariat of Education that functioned as a direct governing body then.
