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Description of the Holy Savior monastery at Mezhegory
12024-04-05T11:31:33-04:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f592plain2024-04-05T11:36:57-04:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5This entry describes the Holy Savior monastery at Mezhegory, above the Dnipro River in Kyiv. It explains that the monastery moved here from a location roughly 30 kilometers away, and notes that it is moving to Tavrida Province on the Black Sea. Amusing as it is to think of a monastery getting up and ambling 1,000 kilometers south, it didn't happen. Catherine II decreed that it should move in 1786, but in 1787 (on the eve of her visit to the site!) the monastery burned to the ground. It never made it to Crimea. And somehow this information never made it to the authors of the Description, who published the 4th edition 30 years after these events without updating the entry.
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12024-04-05T08:59:02-04:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5Opisanie monastyrei, page 534Page 53 of the Opisanie monastyrei illustrates the literal and figurative imperfections of the text.plain2024-04-05T11:37:26-04:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5
