St. Sophia's Cathedral
Eleventh-century cathedral of gold mosaics and frescoes, its walls scratched with medieval graffiti.
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This guide to St. Sophia's Cathedral in Kyiv leaves the mosaics overhead for a single line of writing scratched into the plaster on a winter day in the age of the Kyivan princes. It follows a princess, a piece of land, a price reckoned in sable fur, and the scholars who still argue over who she was. Listen standing close to the walls, where thousands of other old scratchings keep it company.
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