Love and the Lavra - part two.
May 21st 2009 In March I moved with Ana to Kyiv's Arsenal'na district, between Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) and the right bank of the river Dnieper. It is one of the city's most attractive areas, scattered with lush, sweet-smelling chestnut trees and punctuated by dozens of landmarks.
It is home to the Kievo-Pecherska Lavra (The Kyiv Cave Monastery, completed in 1015), a guardian of Eastern Ort
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