Pochaiv Lavra
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The Holy Dormition Pochaiv Lavra, also sometimes known as the Pochaiv Monastery, is a monastery and lavra in Pochaiv, Kremenets Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. The monastery tops a 60-metre hill in t
General view of the Pochaiv Lavra
View of Pochaiv in the early 1800s
The Virgin of Pochaiv, 1840. Ivan Honchar Museum.
"Liberation celebration" of the Ukrainian population on the grounds of the monastery 1941
Ruthenians
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Ruthenian and Ruthene are exonyms of Latin origin, formerly used in Eastern and Central Europe as common ethnonyms for East Slavs, particularly during the late medieval and early modern periods. The L
A boy with the pilgrimage flag with the Ruthenian lion during the Ruthenian pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1906
Ruthenians of Kholm (Chełm) in 1861.
Ruthenians of Podlachia in the second half of the 19th century.
Latin memorial plate from 1521, that mentions king Odoacer as Rex Rhutenorum (Petersfriedhof, Salzburg).