St.Michael`s Cathedral in Kyiv, 1910s

Kyiv`s St.Michael`s is our Parthenon. A beautiful temple that stood on a hill watching over the city for centuries of its rich and vibrant history. And then the invaders came, they stripped the priceless bas-reliefs, mosaics, and frescos, took them far away to their museums, and refused to give them back. Only in our case Russia also literally blew the desacrated cathedral up, destroying thousand years of our history, to errect a giant gaudy monument on top of it which they, thankfully, had never managed to build. 

St.Michael`s Cathedral in Kyiv, 1921

St.Michael`s Cathedral in Kyiv, early XXth century

Kyiv. The View of The St.Michael`s Cathedral from the Sophia Square by Mykola Stratilat, 1987