What you can see is the Kyievo-Pecherska Lavra, among the chestnuts' candles (if it wasnt written on the back, i would have never figured its chestnuts),
This Orthodox monastery (also known as the Kyiv Monastery of the caves) was founded by Saint Anthony of the Caves in the mid-11th century near the village of Berestove in a cave that the future metropolitan of Kyiv, Ilarion, had excavated and lived in until 1051. The first monks excavated more caves and built a church above them.
Since its foundation, as the cave monastery in 1015, the Lavra has been a preeminent center of the Eastern Orthodox Christianity in Eastern Europe. It is also inscribed as a UNESCO whs.
here's one of my favoruite 'language-issues'
the word 'pechera' means 'cave' (in Macedonian, the word for a cave is 'пештера' (peshtera)). The word 'lavra' is used to describe high-ranking monasteries for (male) monks of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Therefore the name of the monastery is also translated as the Kyiv Caves Monastery.
Thanks a LOT Ksenia for the absolutely great card! :)
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One year ago, one of my best friends travelled to Ukraine. He bought me almost all available postcards. :-D
There's a set of which I think it is even more beautiful than the one from which is the card you're showing here.
I'm glad that you liked this card! :) Actually, I found only one set of Kyiv cards in Ternopil', but probably that's because there's 500km distance between these cities :)
I visited the Kyevo-Pechers'ka Lavra in August. There are graves of the Orthodox saints there and monks often pray there. It's really something very unusual and worth seeing.
Kyiv is not Kiev? Maybe I just made a mistake~~
Gone with postcards, I think this city is called "Kiev" more often than "Kyiv" by English-speaking people. But "Kyiv" is more correct, because it's closer to the original (Ukrainian) pronouncation, while "Kiev" is the Russian name.
Well, Ukraine used to be a part of the Soviet Union for a very long time, so many Ukrainian cities are known under their Russian names abroad. But the only official language of Ukraine is Ukrainian.
@ Linn: your friend seems like me...whenever i go somewhere i buy almost all available cards i come across, even if 10 of them show the same site, where the differences are just minor...but if i dont get them, i know for sure that when i come home it will bother me of why i hadnt bought them, coz still it IS a different card indeed :)
@ Ksenia: thanks again for the card...the colours are just really stunning...i absolutely love it...and thanks for the Kyiv/Kiev explaining...i should hire you as my personal assistant ;-))
@ gone with postcards: well, Ksenia had put it really well about the Kyiv/Kiev difference, so, dont worry, you are not wrong...just that in general, i often like to put the original name of places, instead the English adopted one...
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