Askold's Grave
Hillside park above the Dnipro around a pillared Neoclassical rotunda church on a legendary prince's grave.
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This audio guide to Askold's Grave in Kyiv follows the money behind the small round Church of Saint Nicholas, from a Voronezh merchant who paid for it in eighteen oh nine to the city's grandest families, who wanted to be buried around it. It also touches the old legend of Prince Askold and the nineteen thirties, when the hillside cemetery met Soviet planners. Best heard standing by the ring of columns.
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