place
Kiev
also: Kiew
The holy city of the Eastern Slavs, goal of the pilgrim trains, ringed by the graves of the great martyrs of the Orthodox Church; Yegor goes there with Ustyonka.
Reading notes
- The Book of Hours §77 Kiev
Kiev — its Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves) 'forms a tangle of passages, dark and intertwined' beneath the gardens; among the Orthodox holy places God inherits.
- Stories of God §47 Kiev
The holy city of the Eastern Slavs, goal of the pilgrim trains, ringed by the graves of the great martyrs of the Orthodox Church.