Catalogue · ID 424

Памятник Святой Ользі

Author: OldKyiv, сайт історії Києва
Year of publication: 2026
Published in: OldKyiv, сайт історії Києва
Describes Russian colonization of peoples: Ukrainians
Publication rights: not allowed (a 2026 publication under copyright)

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Original source: http://www.oldkyiv.org.ua/data/st_olga_mnmnt.php

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Procedures

• The "Historical Path" (1909–1911) — technique Territorial Marking with Imperial Symbols

  The monument was unveiled on 4 September 1911: princess Olha in the center, to the left the apostle Andrew pointing at the Kyiv hills, to the right the seated Cyril and Methodius

  In the Year of Our Lord 1911" - the tsar's cabinet did indeed give ten thousand rubles for the monument, and the Kyiv merchant Mohylevsky contributed another thousand

  Below, on the pedestal of the princess herself, stood: "She was the first from Rus to enter the Kingdom of Heaven; her the sons of Rus praise as their initiator"

  In 1919 the statue was thrown off its pedestal and buried, split in two, beneath the monument itself; in March 1923 the remaining figures were removed, and in March 1926 the communal department of Kyiv ordered the concrete cleared away for good