Monument to Prince Volodymyr, is a monument in

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 ...

, dedicated to the Grand Prince of Kyiv

Volodymyr the Great Vladimir I Sviatoslavich or Volodymyr I Sviatoslavych ( orv, Володимѣръ Свѧтославичь, ''Volodiměrъ Svętoslavičь'';, ''Uladzimir'', russian: Владимир, ''Vladimir'', uk, Володимир, ''Volodymyr''. Se ...

, built in 1853. It is located on

Volodymyrska Hill Volodymyrska Hill or Saint Volodymyr Hill ( uk, Володимирська гірка, ''"Volodymyrska hirka"'') is a large park located on the steep right-bank of the Dnieper River, Dnipro River in central Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. Its most ...

, the steep right bank of the

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 ...

. It is the oldest sculptural monument, a dominating feature of the Dnipro banks, and one of the city's symbols.

Description

The bronze statue of the Baptizer of the Rus' people, depicting him in a coat with a big cross in his right hand and the Great Prince hat in his left, stands tall on a tall pedestal that has the silhouette of an octagonal chapel in pseudo-

Byzantine style Byzantine architecture is the architecture of the Byzantine Empire, or Eastern Roman Empire. The Byzantine era is usually dated from 330 AD, when Constantine the Great moved the Roman capital to Byzantium, which became Constantinople, until the ...

on a square stylobate. The brick pedestal and stylobate are revetted with cast iron plates. The total height of the monument is . Started by

Vasily Demut-Malinovsky Vasily Ivanovich Demut-Malinovsky was a Russian sculptor whose works represent the quintessence of the Empire style. Biography He entered the Imperial Academy of Arts at the age of six and studied under Mikhail Kozlovsky for fifteen years. Upo ...

, the monument was finished by

Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg Peter Jakob Freiherr Clodt von Jürgensburg, known in Russian as Pyotr Karlovich Klodt (russian: Пётр Карлович Клодт; 5 June 1805, Saint Petersburg – 25 November 1867, Klevenoye, Vyborg Governorate), was a favourite sculp ...

in 1853.

Legacy

The monument is also depicted on Ukrainian karbovanets banknotes issued in 1993 to 1995.

Gallery

File:Saint Vladimir Monument in Kiev. P1030718-1.jpg, Park zone around the monument, 2013 File:Статуя Владимира Великого в Киеве (2021).jpg, Front view of monument, 2021 File:Пам'ятник Володимиру Великому у Києві.jpg, Monument in winter, 2015 File:Stamp of Ukraine s1751.jpg, Stamps of Ukraine, 2019 File:Saint Vladimir Monument during Russian invasion of Ukraine (03).jpg, The monument in protective wrap during the

Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. An ...

, 2022 File:KIEV(1894) p162.jpg, Monument sketch, 1894 File:KhRusi.jpg, " Christianization of Kyivan Rus'", high

relief Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces are bonded to a solid background of the same material. The term ''relief'' is from the Latin verb ''relevo'', to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that the ...

File:2013. Kiev 059.jpg, "Built in 1853" (in Russian), high relief File:Пам’ятник Володимиру Великому (постамент).JPG, "

Order of St. Vladimir The Imperial Order of Saint Prince Vladimir (russian: орден Святого Владимира) was an Imperial Russian order established on by Empress Catherine II in memory of the deeds of Saint Vladimir, the Grand Prince and the Baptize ...

", low relief File:2013. Kiev 062.jpg, Depiction of

Saint Michael Michael (; he, מִיכָאֵל, lit=Who is like El od, translit=Mīḵāʾēl; el, Μιχαήλ, translit=Mikhaḗl; la, Michahel; ar, ميخائيل ، مِيكَالَ ، ميكائيل, translit=Mīkāʾīl, Mīkāl, Mīkhāʾīl), also ...

, low relief File:Monument to Volodymyr the Great in Kyiv, detail 2.JPG, Memorial placard "restored in 1953" (in Ukrainian), 1953 File:UkraineP99a-500000Karbovantsiv-1994-donatedao f.jpg, Monument to Prince Volodymyr on the Ukrainian banknotes File:Хр.Русі.jpg, Monument to Prince Volodymyr on the Soviet jubilee coin of 25 Rbls File:50 UAH Varfolomey A.jpg, Monument to Prince Volodymyr on the Ukrainian jubilee coin of ₴50

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