Askold's Grave ( uk, Аскольдова могила, translit=Askoldova Mohyla) is a historical

park A park is an area of natural, semi-natural or planted space set aside for human enjoyment and recreation or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats. Urban parks are urban green space, green spaces set aside for recreation inside t ...

on the steep right bank of the

Dnipro River } The Dnieper () or Dnipro (); , ; . is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea. It is the longest river of Ukraine and B ...

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

between

Mariinskyi Park Mariinskyi Park ( uk, Маріїнський парк, ''Mariyins'kyi park'') is a park located in Pechersk neighborhood in front of the Supreme Council of Ukraine ( Constitution Square), Hrushevsky Street, and Park Road. The park is also a S ...

and the

Kyiv Pechersk Lavra Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra or Kyivo-Pechers’ka Lavra ( uk, Києво-Печерська лавра, translit=Kyievo-Pecherska lavra, russian: Киево-Печерская лавра), also known as the Kyiv Monastery of the Caves, is a historic Ea ...

complex.

Overview

The park was created by the Soviets in the mid-1930s in place of an old graveyard around the Church of St. Nicholas, which, as the story goes, marks the place where Prince

Askold Askold and Dir (''Haskuldr'' or ''Hǫskuldr'' and ''Dyr'' or ''Djur'' in Old Norse; died in 882), mentioned in both the Primary Chronicle and the Nikon Chronicle, were the earliest known ''purportedly Norse'' rulers of Kiev. Primary Chronicle ...

of Kyiv was buried in the 9th century. In the Middle Ages, Askold's Grave was known as the Hungarian tract ( uk, Угорське урочище, Uhorske urochyshche). According to the

Primary Chronicle The ''Tale of Bygone Years'' ( orv, Повѣсть времѧньныхъ лѣтъ, translit=Pověstĭ vremęnĭnyxŭ lětŭ; ; ; ; ), often known in English as the ''Rus' Primary Chronicle'', the ''Russian Primary Chronicle'', or simply the ...

, it was the place where the

Magyars Hungarians, also known as Magyars ( ; hu, magyarok ), are a nation and ethnic group native to Hungary () and historical Hungarian lands who share a common culture, history, ancestry, and language. The Hungarian language belongs to the Uralic ...

crossed the Dnipro on the way from the Russian steppes to

Pannonia Pannonia (, ) was a province of the Roman Empire bounded on the north and east by the Danube, coterminous westward with Noricum and upper Italy, and southward with Dalmatia and upper Moesia. Pannonia was located in the territory that is now wes ...

. Archeological excavations have revealed a 9th-century

dirham The dirham, dirhem or dirhm ( ar, درهم) is a silver unit of currency historically and currently used by several Arab and Arab influenced states. The term has also been used as a related unit of mass. Unit of mass The dirham was a un ...

hoard and some remains of Izyaslav II's wooden palace. There's a modern

stele A stele ( ),Anglicized plural steles ( ); Greek plural stelai ( ), from Greek , ''stēlē''. The Greek plural is written , ''stēlai'', but this is only rarely encountered in English. or occasionally stela (plural ''stelas'' or ''stelæ''), whe ...

commemorating the Magyar migration. In the 15th and 16th centuries, Askold's Grave was settled by the Orthodox monks of St. Nicholas's Monastery. Hetman

Mazepa Ivan Stepanovych Mazepa (also spelled Mazeppa; uk, Іван Степанович Мазепа, pl, Jan Mazepa Kołodyński; ) was a Ukrainian military, political, and civic leader who served as the Hetman of Zaporizhian Host in 1687–1708. ...

had the monastery moved to a nearby hill, where a new Baroque penticupolar cathedral was then erected. The existing church of St. Nicholas is a modest Neoclassical rotunda designed by

Andrey Melensky Andrey Ivanovich Melensky (russian: Андрей Иванович Меленский; 1766–1833) was a Russian Imperial Neoclassical architect from MoscowМ. М. Жербин. Украинские и зарубежные строители: кр� ...

in 1810. A new golden-domed chapel was built on the bank of the Dnipro in 2000. The style is

Ukrainian Baroque Ukrainian Baroque, or Cossack Baroque or Mazepa Baroque ( uk, Українське бароко або Козацьке бароко), is an architectural style that was widespread in the Ukrainian lands in the 17th and 18th centuries. It was th ...

revival. The chapel is dedicated to Saint Andrew Protokletos and belongs to the Moscow Patriarchate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.Temple of Saint Andrew Protokletos
Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

Points of interest

* Landmark of Architecture " St.Nicholas Church" * National Landmark of Archaeology "Uhorske village" * Chapels: St. Andrew, Exaltation of Cross * Memorial burial (rebuilt, partially): Memorial to Holodomor victims, Memorial to Heroes of the

Battle of Kruty The Battle of Kruty ( uk, Бій під Крутами, ) took place on January 29 or 30, 1918 , near Kruty railway station (today the village of Pamiatne, Nizhyn Raion, Chernihiv Oblast), about northeast of Kyiv, Ukraine, which at the time ...

* Monument to Saint Andrew the First-Called

Lost landmarks

* Priest's House * Bell tower * St. Nicholas Hermitage * Necropolis (original)

Opera

The Opera

Askold's grave Askold's Grave ( uk, Аскольдова могила, translit=Askoldova Mohyla) is a historical park on the steep right bank of the Dnipro River in Kyiv between Mariinskyi Park and the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra complex. Overview The park was cr ...

composed by Russian composer Alexey Verstovsky and premiered in 1835,tells the story of how Askold and Dir happen to be buried in Askold's grave by Olga of Kiev.

Gallery

File:Askold's Grave by Vasily Sternberg, 1837.jpg, ''Askold's Grave'', a painting of Vasily Shternberg (1837) File:Аскольдова могила.jpg, St.Nicholas Church sketch by

Taras Shevchenko Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko ( uk, Тарас Григорович Шевченко , pronounced without the middle name; – ), also known as Kobzar Taras, or simply Kobzar (a kobzar is a bard in Ukrainian culture), was a Ukraine, Ukrainian p ...

(1846) File:Аскольдова Могила Київ 1911.jpg, St.Nicholas Church (1911, photo) File:Церква святого Миколая (Аскольдова могила), Паркова дорога.JPG, St.Nicholas Church (2009, photo) File:Аскольдова могила. Хрестовоздвиженська каплиця.jpg, Chapel of Exaltation of Cross File:Аскольдова могила - пам'ятник Андрія Первозваного.JPG, Monument to Saint Andrew the First-Called File:Сторична місцевість-парк Аскольдова могила,.JPG, Sculpture of Blessed Virgin Mary File:Аскольдова могила 2.jpg, Askold's Tomb File:Kiev - chapel.jpg, St.Andrew's Chapel File:Holodomor Genocide Memorial Kyiv.JPG, Memorial to

Holodomor The Holodomor ( uk, Голодомо́р, Holodomor, ; derived from uk, морити голодом, lit=to kill by starvation, translit=moryty holodom, label=none), also known as the Terror-Famine or the Great Famine, was a man-made famin ...

victims with

in the background File:Хрест_на_могилі_Героїв_Крут_Аскольдова_Могила,_Київ.jpg, Heroes of the Battle of Kruty memorial File:Історична_місцевість-парк_Аскольдова_могила.JPG, Modern stela commemorating the migration of Magyar tribes File:Kyiv Ugorske SAM 1651 80-382-0009.jpg, Official placard identifying the National Landmark of Archaeology Uhorske village File:Аскольдова могила, Печерський район, Паркова дорога.jpg, Flight of steps down to

Dnipro Dnipro, previously called Dnipropetrovsk from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper Rive ...

from St. Nicholas Church File:Askold Grave Park.JPG, One of the Park's trails File:Аскольдова могила 01.JPG, Traffic at the entrance (off Parkova Doroha, 2014) File:Миколаївська церква на Аскольдовій могили. 1809 р.jpg, Winter 2013

References

External links

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