Askold's Grave

Askold's Grave
Askold's Grave
	St.Nicholas Church
Location	Kyiv, Ukraine
Coordinates	50°26′38″N 30°33′5″E / 50.44389°N 30.55139°E

Askold's Grave (

Church of St. Nicholas, which, as the story goes, marks the place where Prince Askold of Kyiv was buried in the 9th century.^[1]

In the Middle Ages, Askold's Grave was known as the Hungarian tract (

Izyaslav II's wooden palace. There's a modern stele commemorating the Magyar migration. In the 15th and 16th centuries, Askold's Grave was settled by the Orthodox monks of St. Nicholas's Monastery. Hetman Mazepa had the monastery moved to a nearby hill, where a new Baroque penticupolar cathedral was then erected. The existing church of St. Nicholas is a modest Neoclassical rotunda designed by Andrey Melensky

in 1810.

A golden-domed chapel was built on the bank of the Dnipro in 2000. The

Andrew Protokletos and belongs to the Moscow Patriarchate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.^[3]

Points of interest

Landmark of Architecture "St. Nicholas Church"
National Landmark of Archaeology "Uhorske village"
Chapels: St. Andrew, Exaltation of Cross
Memorial burial (rebuilt, partially):
Memorial to Holodomor victims, Memorial to Heroes of the Battle of Kruty

Monument to Saint Andrew the First-Called

Lost landmarks

Priest's House
Bell tower
St. Nicholas Hermitage
Necropolis (original)

Opera

The Opera Askold's grave composed by Russian composer Alexey Verstovsky and premiered in 1835, tells the story of how Askold and Dir happen to be buried in Askold's grave by Olga of Kyiv.

Gallery

Askold's Grave, a painting of Vasily Shternberg (1837)
St.Nicholas Church sketch by Taras Shevchenko (1846)
St.Nicholas Church (1911, photo)
St.Nicholas Church (2009, photo)
Chapel of Exaltation of Cross
Monument to Saint Andrew the First-Called
Sculpture of Blessed Virgin Mary
Askold's Tomb
St.Andrew's Chapel
Memorial to Holodomor victims with Kyiv Pechersk Lavra in the background
Heroes of the Battle of Kruty memorial
Modern stela commemorating the migration of Magyar tribes
Official placard identifying the National Landmark of Archaeology Uhorske village
Flight of steps down to Dnipro from St. Nicholas Church
One of the Park's trails
Traffic at the entrance (off Parkova Doroha, 2014)
Winter 2013

References

External links

[1] "Аскольдова могила. История Аскольдовой могилы. Достопримечательности Киева".

[2] "Церковь Андрея Первозванного » Интересные места Киева".

[3] Temple of Saint Andrew Protokletos. Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

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