Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1920 — Kiev, Capital of Ukraine, Is Great Religious City [ARTICLE]

Kiev, Capital of Ukraine, Is Great Religious City

Kiev, the ancient capital of Ukraine, to one of the world’s great religious cities. In normal times it counts as many as from 200,000 to 350,000 pilgrims every year. Before the Mongol storm which laid it in the dust in the thirteenth century, Kiev was resplendent with all the glory of Byzantine art. Even now in 'all that remains of the great cathedral of St. Sophia, built in 1037 by Yaroslav L mosaics may be traced which show unmistakably their Byzantine origin. Kiev before the war had regained some of her fame as an art center. Her cathedral of St. Vladimir, which was completed in the nineties. Is witness to the genius of one of Russia’s modern painters, Victor Vasnietov, who has infused a new life into the religious art of his ronntry. Kiev has also an art museum —or she had before the bolshevik! had the run of the city.