Photo, Print, Drawing Saint Sophia Cathedral.
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Title
- Saint Sophia Cathedral.
Summary
- This view of Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev is from Souvenir of Kiev, an early 20th-century album showing the main sites of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine and at that time one of the most important cities of the Russian Empire. The name of the cathedral comes from the sixth-century Hagia Sophia in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) and means "Holy Wisdom," rather than dedication to a particular saint. Designed as "the new Constantinople" to represent Eastern Christianity, Saint Sophia in Kiev was first constructed in the 11th century at the height of the power of Kievan Rus, a medieval polity within today's Ukraine, and it was the major metropolitan church in Russia. It was completed in its present form 700 years later, after cycles of destruction and rebuilding. In this somewhat-idealized view, the cathedral is seen with the bell tower, the cathedral square, and the monument to Bohdan Khmelnytsky, a 17th-century Cossack generally regarded as a Ukrainian national hero. The cathedral, together with the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra monastery, is inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List. The 25 views in Souvenir of Kiev are collotypes, made using a chemically-based printing process widely employed before the invention of offset lithography.
Created / Published
- [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1900 to 1920]
Headings
- - Ukraine--Kiev
- - 1710 to 1920
- - Bell towers
- - Cathedrals
- - Khmelʹnyt︠s︡ʹkyĭ, Bohdan, circa 1594-1657
- - Monuments and memorials
- - Onion domes
- - Plazas
Notes
- - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- - Original resource extent: 1 photomechanical print : collotype.
- - Original resource at: Yaroslav Mudryi National Library of Ukraine.
- - Content in German and French and Russian.
- - Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
Medium
- 1 online resource.
Source Collection
- Souvenir of Kiev
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2021669063
Online Format
- compressed data
- image