National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Historic Podil university founded in 1615, centred on a seventeenth-century hetman-funded building.
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This guide to the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv follows Artemy Vedel, a wood carver's son who came through these halls in the seventeen-seventies and eighties and became one of the defining voices of Ukrainian church music. It touches the student choir and orchestra he was trusted to lead, and the gentle way his singers remembered him. Listen near the old Mazepa building at the heart of the campus.
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