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The Last Outpost of Christianity in Podillya22.06.2009, [13:26] // Kaleidoscope //
Kam’yanets-Podilskyj charms with its castle, numerous churches of various confessions, natural landscape, and unique history. It is not possible to capture the beauty of this city, which is included as one of the seven wonders of Ukraine, in one account. Thus, our local correspondent Yuliya ZAVADSKA proposes RISU readers a series of materials devoted to Kam’yanets-Podilskyj and its surrounding areas.
Vii’s Churches of the Chernihiv Region
22.04.2009, [12:30] // Kaleidoscope // Matthew Matuszak
Ukrainian churches have often been filmed not just as decorations, but also as historical monuments – like peculiar dead characters. On more than one occasion, their histories merged with film script legends, which afterwards stuck and became alluring for tourists and truth-seekers indeed. In this article, Olena TERESHCHENKO presents the churches in which were Vii was filmed – their legends and their real histories.
A cockcrow was heard. Frightened spirits rushed to windows and doors in order to fly out more quickly, but far from it: they remained there, stuck in doors and windows. The church accreted with a forest, roots, weeds, wild blackthorn; and nobody will find a road to it…”
M. Gogol, Vii
Odyssey of the “Wild Priest”02.10.2008, [15:45] // Kaleidoscope //
Ivan DYVNYI, editor of the site pamjatky.org.ua, tells the story of a priest of northern Ukrainian Kozelets of the 18th century, Kyrylo Tarlovskii, who received the nickname “wild priest” from the people of Zaporizhzhia.
St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Church in Kyiv Marks 900 Years08.08.2008, [11:14] // Kaleidoscope //
RISU’s Ukrainian-language site posted the original of this text on 2 July 2008.
Monastery of Sts. Cosmas and Damian in Crimea23.11.2007, [16:05] // Kaleidoscope //
RISU’s Ukrainian-language site posted the text on 7 November 2007.
Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi: Church versus museum, or the anarchy continues16.11.2007, [11:08] // Kaleidoscope //
RISU’s Ukrainian-language site posted the story on 13 November 2007.
A hundred historic monuments with 1200 residents: The village of Sedniv near Chernihiv14.11.2007, [14:45] // Kaleidoscope //
RISU’s Ukrainian-language site posted the story on 1 November 2007
White Mosque on the Night of Decree09.11.2007, [11:01] // Kaleidoscope //
Celebrating Ramadan in Simferopol, Crimea
“People who suffered for the truth are ready for mutual understanding”29.10.2007, [16:12] // Kaleidoscope //
European Justice and Peace Commissions Hold Conference in Kyiv
St. Vatslav Roman Catholic Church in Zhytomyr Marks 100th Anniversary26.10.2007, [10:35] // Kaleidoscope //
For centuries, representatives of many nationalities, Poles, Jews, Russians, Czechs, and many others, have lived in central Ukraine’s hospitable Zhytomyr Region.
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