A gravestone from the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv. The cemetery was founded in 1786 but the oldest gravestone among the approximately 400,000 burials dates to 1675.
A statue of Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny, who served as Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host from 1616-1622. The statue is located in Manhush (Donetsk Oblast).
St. George's Skete of Svyatogirsk Holy Dormition Lavra of Donetsk Diocese of Ukrainian Orthodox Church was built in 1862. It is a wooden structure. In 1867 the building housed a public school for forty boys, and was eventually turned into a parochial school. A hermitage church dedicated to the martyr St George the Victory-Bearer was recently built on the site, based on the original model of the Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God on the Nerl.
The Holy Trinity Church is the oldest in Irpen. It stands on a high hill in the center of the city. The foundation and construction of the church began in 1909 and continued for six years. In 1915, services began to be held regularly.
The construction of this building was completed in 1897. Initially, there was a hotel "Continental" and a merchant meeting hall. Later, the house was significantly rebuilt and expanded. A hall for spectators, two lobbies and technical premises were completed.
In 1941, the building housed a military hospital. While retreating from the city, the fascists burned the building of the former male gymnasium along with other houses. All that remained of it - burnt brick walls - was transferred to the industrial technical school. Reconstruction work was completed in 1952.
Icon of the Mother of God, called "Pishchanska," located in the Pisky settlement of the Izyum district in Kharkiv province. The icon has had several homes but now resides in the Ascension Cathedral.
This manuscript may be a copy of the Polyeleos, "Service of Sophia, the Wisdom of God, which is in the Great New City,” compiled in the 1st half of the 17th century (before 1646) by Prince Simeon Shakhovsky.
Color photograph of Vvedensk Refectory Church, built 1677-1679, Chernihiv. The pillarless Vvedensk church is one of the oldest in the group of Chernihiv monuments of the 17th century.
