Svyato-Kyrylivsʹkyy Monastyr
Twelfth-century princely church with vast medieval frescoes and luminous 1880s icons by Vrubel.
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This guide to St. Cyril's Monastery in Kyiv centres on the face of one icon, and on the circle of Kyiv art lovers around it in the eighteen-eighties: an art historian who uncovered hidden murals, his pianist wife, and a young painter nobody yet knew. It also reaches back to the prince who founded the monastery and the century when its monks vanished. Stand facing the marble iconostasis to begin.
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