Church of the Savior in Berestov
Twelfth-century princely church with Baroque domes, rare early frescoes and a Moscow founder's cenotaph.
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This guide to the Church of the Savior in Berestov, inside Kyiv's Pechersk Lavra, follows Yuri Dolgoruky, the twelfth-century prince Moscow calls its founder, through his short reign in Kyiv and the spring feast of eleven fifty-seven. It then jumps to nineteen forty-seven, when Soviet Moscow came looking for him here. Stand near the granite sarcophagus in the former side chapel as you listen.
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