Travel to Ukraine - travel best way :: The Anthony’s Caves in Chernihiv

The Maryinskiy Palace
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Maryinskiy or Tsar’s palace in Kyiv is the monument of the history, the city-building and the architecture. It was built in 1750-1755. It was situated on the historical place between Kreshtchatyk and Pechersk, which had some names – “Klov”, “Palace’s part”, and “Lypky”.
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The Saint Yuriy Cathedral
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The Greek-Catholic cathedral of Saint Yuriy is the pearl of Ukrainian architecture. The cathedral is situated on the west a little aside of historical centre of Lviv. Near the temple the park is approaching until the cathedral, the trees are calling with its silhouette and sculpture design. It as if goes on and finishes the hill’s slopes, creating the indissoluble whole of nature and architecture.
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The Saint Sofia Cathedral
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The unique Kyiv’s Saint Sofia belongs to the world’smasterpieces of the architecture, monuments of the history, culture and religion cults. Kyiv has been compared with Jerusalem, Konstantinopol or Rome along almost a thousand years. In 1990 all complex of Saint Sofia’s cathedral had put down in the List of world cultural inheritance of UNESCO as the unique monument of architecture and monumental painting.
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The Svirzskiy Castle
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The castle is situated on the picturesque hill surrounded from three sides with the wide pond. There are no documental facts about the time of its foundation. According to the researchers’ ideas it could be erected already in XV century.
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Kamianets-Podilskiy
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Kamianets-Podilskiy heads the top-5 of the most popular tourist routs in Ukraine. The Old town of Kamianets, recognized the one of the seven Ukrainian wonders, has the unusual aura, which forces the tourists to come here again and again, in spite of that the places in some proper hotels must be reserved in some weeks before (such as “Gala-Hotel”, “Hetman”, “Cleopatra”, “Taras Bulba”).
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The Golden Gates
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The Golden Gates in Kyiv – it is one of few monuments of Kyiv Rus defensive architecture, which had reached nowadays.Kyiv has been surrounded with high earth banks 3,5 kilometers long. These banks lied across the present streets of the central part of Kyiv – from the Lviv’s Square along the Yaroslaviv Val Street to the Golden Gates.
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The Powder tower
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The Powder tower of 1554-1556 is if a single important fortification monument of Lviv’s building, which had kept till nowadays.Generally there were some powerful towers, gates and bastions, which had been defending the city, but the only one the Powder tower had left till nowadays.
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The Pototskiy Palace
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The Pototskiy Palace is situated in Lviv. The palace had been built in order of count Alfred II Pototskiy in 1889 . The Palace, in style of classicism, was erected on the place of Pototski estate. The French and Polish architects had designed this wonderful palace.
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The castle "Palanok"
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The castle Palanok, the main attraction of the city, is seen already in some kilometers before Mukacheve. Its foundation is the extinct volcono with the high of 68 meters. Palanok is the invincible and the photogenic relic of the Middle Ages.
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The Anthony’s Caves in Chernihiv

In 1069 the famous monk Anthony, the establisher of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, had come to Chernihiv. He had established the cave monastery of St. Virgin behind the city walls, which he wanted to be not worse than Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. The Boldyni Mountains were the most suitable for this, because the gullies were comfortable for the caves.

It had passed almost a thousand years after the digging the first cave in Chernihiv. The monastery was created on the example of the ancient cave Orthodox monasteries and had represented not a big cave town, situated on the slopes of the gully and consisted of a great number of underground buildings. The Anthony’s caves are only the part of the cave complex, which had existed here. Today we can surely say about seven known Old Russian caves, but undoubtedly there were much more. We know that the monastery has consisted of not big underground buildings. There were the caves for monk’s dwelling, cave and underground temples. Besides, the considerable number of the land buildings entered into the monastery. Only Illinska church has kept till nowadays.

At first time the monastery was remembered only in 1649. The end of XVII and XVIII century is the period of Chernihiv development and monastery’s prosperity. In 1649 Illinska church has been renewed. The monastery has been building up, even the new cave complexes have appeared called the New Anthony’s caves. It becomes the residence of Chernihiv’s archibishops.

The Boldyni mountains with the ancient Illinska church and the Anthony’s caves, which are the decoration of Chernihiv national historical and architectural preserve “The Ancient Chernihiv” , have a great popularity among the tourists.

Every year over 37 thousand of tourists visit the caves. The underground cells, the temples and the tombs don’t leave any visitor indifferent, making an impression of real visit to the history. The archeological excavations have been lasting here for thirty years. One of the last important findings is the rests of the printing house the end of XVII – the beginning of XVIII century. Quiet recently the lower storey of the Anthony’s caves was opened for the excursions. These are the underground gallery, the square near 100 sq. meters, with the monk’s cells and rooms for the burials. So the visitors of this unique museum can see the new pages of the past.

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