St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery
Rebuilt blue-and-gold monastery beside an early eighteenth-century refectory church that outlived it.
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This guide to St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery in Kyiv skips past the gilded cathedral to a plainer building at the edge of the courtyard: the monks' refectory, raised in the early seventeen hundreds. It follows the brothers who ate there, the farm and gardens that fed them, and the students and athletes who used the room in the Soviet decades. Best heard standing in the courtyard with the refectory in view.
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