St. Michael's Vydubytsky Men's Monastery
Riverside monastery church with an eleventh-century west front and a baroque east end rebuilt after floods.
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This guide to St. Michael's Church at the Vydubychi Monastery in Kyiv looks at a building that has spent nine centuries arguing with the hill beneath it. You'll meet Pyotr Miloneg, a twelfth-century builder whose name a chronicler thought worth recording, and the patrons who kept paying to put the church back together. Walk around to the western end, where the bare old masonry shows you how Kyiv's first builders worked.
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