Kirillovskaya church was built in the middle of XII age on the distant outskirts of ancient Kiev — Dorogozhichakh. From here founder of church the Chernigov prince Vsevolod Ol’govich in 1139 took assault Kiev during an intestine fight for the great Kievan throne. For the representatives of dynasty of Ol’govichey a temple served as an out-of-town residence and familial usypal’nitsey. In [...]

It was trekhnefnoe trekhapsidnoe shestistolpnoe odnokupol’noe building, prolate on the axis of zapad—vostok. His sizes of 31 kh a 18,4 meter, height 28 meters. Zakomarnoe coverage did not survive more ancient. Dekor of facades consisted of arkaturnogo string-course in overhead part of walls, drum and easy semicolumns on a drum and apses. Walls outside, presumably, [...]

A district of Kreschatika was in distant times a deep valley, cut up cross-beams and covered a thick vegetation, where a small brook flowed. In north-eastern direction a valley went out to Dnepr, and in south-western – in a pool Lybid’. This locality is named in plans the “Kreschatoy valley”, from where and the today’s [...]

The cathedral of Sainted Sofia was built in a 11 age. He is located in the center of city. Saved and through ages to us send on 260 metres mosaics and 3 thousand м frescos. Scarcely somewhere in Europe it is possible to find a church, where so much frescos were saved 11 ages. Round a cathedral there are [...]