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Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (in common parlance the Great Church) - the main cathedral church of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, bogosozdanny the prototype of all the monastic churches of ancient Russia, the tomb of the Kievan princes. It was founded in 1073 on the initiative of Theodosius of the Caves and built in three years with the money of Prince Svyatoslav II Yarosla |
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