A complete list of interesting, unusual, romantic, secret and popular places located near Pochtovaya Ploshchad station
According to the chronicles, the beginning of construction of the Tithe Church dates back to 989. It was built by Russian and Greek architects for 6 years as a cathedral not far from the prince’s tower – a stone north-eastern palace building, the excavated part of which is located at a distance of 60 meters … Read more
Before the installation of the monument, the territory was occupied by the vineyards of Mikhailovsky Golden-Domed Monastery. However, numerous floods of the Dnieper caused severe subsidence of soil under the vineyards and provoked a series of landslides on Vladimirsky descent. This caused indignation among local authorities, since a lot of money was invested in dressing … Read more
A wooden church with this name was first mentioned in written sources in 1520. The new building of the stone Church of the Nativity of Christ was built on the site of the old wooden church, which was dismantled in 1807. The project was developed by architect Andrey Melensky (Contract House, monument to Magdeburg Law, … Read more
The idea of creating a monument arose in society on the initiative of the historian, professor at Kyiv University Nikolai Kostomarov in the 1840s. After receiving permission from the imperial government in 1860, a committee was created headed by Mikhail Yuzefovich, a university professor and head of the Kyiv archaeographic commission. The first design of … Read more
St. Andrew’s Church is an Orthodox church in honor of the Apostle Andrew the First-Called. It was built in the Baroque style according to the design of the architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli in 1754 on St. Andrew’s Hill. Down from the church goes Andreevskiy Spusk. In our time, it is an active church of the Ukrainian … Read more
Richard’s Castle – Lion’s Heart – the poetic name of house No. 15 on Andreevsky Spusk – an architectural monument of the 19th century, built in the style English Gothic in 1905, commissioned by industrialist Dmitry Orlov. Named by the Soviet writer Viktor Nekrasov in honor of King Richard the Lionheart, the hero of Walter … Read more