Kiev sights

House with Chimeras is an Art Nouveau brick building located in the capital of Ukraine, Kiev. The house got its name thanks to the sculptural decorations, the themes of which are terrestrial and underwater animal worlds, hunting attributes, fairy tale creatures.

"Richard's Castle - Lionheart" is the poetized name of house number 15 on Andrew's Descent in Kiev, a monument of 19th-century architecture built in the British Gothic style. It was named by Victor Nekrasov in honor of King Richard the Lionheart, the hero of Walter Scott's novel Ivanhoe.

St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery is an active monastery in Kyiv, recreated in 1997-1998 in the forms of the Cathedral Church of the Archangel Michael destroyed in the 1930s. It is the main cathedral of the PCU. It also includes a refectory with the Church of St. John the Evangelist and a bell tower.

Andriyivskyy Descent in Kiev is one of the old ways connecting the Upper Town, its central part, with commercial Podol. It runs from Kontraktova Square to Desiatynna and Volodymyrska Streets.

St. Andrew's Church in Kiev is an Orthodox church in honor of the Apostle Andrew. Built in the style of Elisabethan baroque designed by B. F. Rastrelli in 1747-1753. Rastrelli in 1747-1753 on the Andreevskaya hill. The temple is located on the steep right bank of the Dnieper, over the historic part of the city - Podol.

St. Nicholas Church, House of Organ and Chamber Music is a Roman Catholic Church of St. Nicholas in Kiev, used since 1980 as the House of Organ and Chamber Music. It is located at: 75, Bolshaya Vasilkovskaya str.

St. Vladimir's Cathedral is a monument of neo-Byzantine architecture in Kiev on Taras Shevchenko Boulevard, and the leading artists of the Russian Empire worked on its decoration.

Cathedral of St. Sophia is a temple built in the first half of the 11th century in the center of Kiev, according to chronicles, by Prince Yaroslav the Wise on the site of the victory over the Pechenegs in 1036. At the turn of the XVII-XVIII centuries, it was externally rebuilt in the Ukrainian Baroque style.

The Holy Dormition Kievo-Pechersk Lavra is one of the first monasteries of Kievan Rus. One of the most important Orthodox shrines, the third Department of the Virgin Mary. Pechersky monastery was founded in 1051 by monk Antony, a native of Lubech, and his disciple Theodosius under Yaroslav the Wise.

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