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Updated: May 8, 2025
It was in 1710 that Peter I. named the place "Victory," in honor of Prince-Saint Alexander Nevsky's conquest, and commanded the erection of a Lavra, or first-class monastery, the seat of a Metropolitan and of a theological seminary. By 1716 the monastery was completed, in wood, as engravings of that day show us, but in a very different form from the complex of stone buildings of the present day.
Later on, one of the hills was occupied by the village of Berostovo, and a palace was built adjoining the tiny ancient "Church of the Saviour in the Birch Forest," which I have already mentioned. It was the favorite residence of Prince-Saint Vladimir, and of his son, Prince Yaroslaff, after him.
I think he must have been content with the expression of our faces, as he showed us the way to the most ancient of all the churches in Kieff, in Russia, in fact, built by Prince-Saint Vladimir immediately after his return from the crusade in search of baptism. The church door was locked.
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