Florivsʹkyy Monastyr
Hillside Orthodox convent in the old merchant quarter, centred on a three-domed Baroque church.
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This audio guide to the Florivsky Convent in Kyiv's Podil follows Natalia Sheremeteva, a field marshal's daughter engaged in seventeen thirty to the favourite of a boy tsar, in the winter her family begged her to walk away. It crosses from the Russian court to a Siberian exile town and back to this hillside, where Natalia would one day arrive. Listen standing in the courtyard facing the three-domed Ascension church.
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