Volodymyr The Great Monument
Bronze prince with a raised cross atop a chapel-shaped pedestal, high above the Dnipro since 1853.
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This audio guide to the Volodymyr the Great Monument in Kyiv stands you beneath the prince who brought Christianity to Kyivan Rus', and asks whose hero he really is. It moves between the empire that raised this bronze in the nineteenth century and a rival statue in Moscow a century and a half later. Best heard at the railing beside the pedestal, facing the river.
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