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“[...] The director of the Kiev City Museum, a nice man beset with worry that his beloved collection was about to lose its premises to the new High Court, once gave me a peroration on the superiority of Ukrainian [culture] over Russian culture. ‘When we were building Santa Sofia, over there’ – waving an arm vaguely eastwards – ‘there was nothing but wolves.’ For my benefit, he said, he was talking in Russian. But did he speak Ukrainian at home? He blushed a little and shifted in his chair: ‘Well, you know how it is, it isn’t easy...’[.]” • Reid, Anna (1997, 1999). Borderland : A Journey Through The History of Ukraine. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, page 86. |
- A model of the original Cathedral of Santa Sophia (Cathedral of Holy Wisdom) in Kyiv, built from 1037–1057. The model is housed in the narthex of the cathedral, which is now a museum.
- The Cathedral of Santa Sophia today, with most of the exterior changes made between c. 1634 – c. 1767. The Soviet government exposed some of the original 11th century stonemasonry when the cathedral became a museum.
- A map of Eastern Europe with the area of the former Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia highlighted in blue (West Galicia) and green (East Galicia).
- The rebuilt St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery in Kyiv. The original, built from 1108–1113 – with exterior changes made between c. 1634 – c. 1767 – was systematically leveled by the Soviet government during 1934–1936. The monastery's bell tower is in the foreground.