The Kyiv Pechersk Lavra or Kyievo-Pecherska Lavra, also known as the Kyiv Monastery of the Caves, is a historic lavra or large monastery of Eastern Christianity that gave its name to the Pecherskyi Di
View of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra
Icon of Saints Anthony and Theodosius, founders of Kyiv Pechersk Lavra
The Near Caves of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra. Sketch by the Dutch artist Abraham van Westerveld made in 1651
A lithograph of Pechersk Lavra, Kyiv, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, D.C.
The Dormition Cathedral of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, also referred to as the Great Church, is the main cathedral of the monastery complex. In the time of the Kyivan Rus the cathedral also served as the
The Dormition Cathedral of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra in Kyiv, Ukraine.
The Great Church of the Kyiv Monastery of the Caves by Vasily Vereshchagin (1905)
Destroyed Dormition Cathedral (1942)
The cathedral in ruins after WWII (1958)