St. Volodymyr's Cathedral
Neo-Byzantine cathedral with seven domes, bronze saint doors and lavish painted interiors.
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This guide to St. Volodymyr's Cathedral in Kyiv follows the money behind it, starting in the eighteen-fifties, when a senior churchman decided to build not with treasury funds but with donations gathered across an empire. It touches on a monastery's gift of bricks, an engineer called in from Saint Petersburg, and a decade when the site stood silent. Best heard standing close to the bronze entrance doors.
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