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The Mosaic Eucharist of St. Michael's (Kiev)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2018

Samuel H. Cross
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Among the chief landmarks of pre-war Kiev prior to the demolition of the structure in 1935-37 was the mediaeval but much-restored cathedral of St. Michael. This edifice was conspicuously situated northeast of St. Sophia near the edge of a bluff overlooking the lower city, and its gilded cupolas caused the institution around it to be known as the Monastery of St. Michael with the Golden Domes (Zlatoverkho-Mikhailovsky Monastyr').

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American Slavic and East European Review , Volume 6 , Issue 1-2 , May 1947 , pp. 56 - 61
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 1947

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1 Cf. Lebedintzev, P. G., “Dmitrievskii Monastyr',” Chteniya v istoricheskom obshckestve Nestora Letopistsa, I, (Kiev, 1879), 28–36 Google Scholar; Zakrevski, N., Opisanie Kieva, I (Moscow, 1869), 293–295.Google Scholar

2 G. Murkos, trans., Puleshestvie Antiokhiiskago Patriarkha Makariya v Rossiyu v polovine XVII veka, fasc. 2 (Moscow, 1897), 73. Ainalov's references in Belvedere, ix-x (1926), 203 and Geschichte der russ. Monumentalkunst(Berlin, 1932), 26, are both erroneous. Paul likewise mentioned that the monastery buildings were of wood, and that in his day the cathedral had one gilded cupola and one nave (a natural conclusion, in view of the narrowness of the aisles from the primitive prothesis and diakonikon).

3 Tolstoy, I. and Kondakov, N., Russkie Drevnosti, fasc. Iv, (St. Petersburg, 1891), 162–163,Google Scholar with a poor plate; D. V. Ainalov, loc. cit.; Grabar, I., Istoriya Russkogo iskusstva, vi, 120–123 Google Scholar; Brunov, M. Alpatov-N., Geschichte der altrussischenKunst, (Augsburg, 1932), 251–253; Google Scholar Nekrasov, A. I., Dervnerusskoe izobrazitel'noe iskusstvo, (Moscow, 1937), 39–40; Google Scholar E. W. Anthony, A History of Mosaics, (Boston, 1935), 167.Google Scholar

4 For a joint piece of work, see “The Earliest Mediaeval Churches of Kiev,” Speculum, xI, no. 4 (October 1936), 477.