Holosiyivsʹkyy Park
Wooded city park with a cascade of four ponds, old oaks and paths toward a forest hermitage.
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This guide to Holosiivskyi Park in Kyiv follows Alexei Shepelev, a monk born deaf and mute who spent his last two decades at a forest hermitage just south of these ponds. It reaches back to Peter Mohyla, the seventeenth-century metropolitan who had these woods planted, and into the beliefs pilgrims still carry here. Best heard beside the cascade of ponds, with the water audible.
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