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Askold's Grave, the Glossary

Askold's Grave (translit) is a historical park on the steep right bank of the Dnipro River in Kyiv between Mariinskyi Park and the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra complex.^[1]

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31 relations: Alexey Verstovsky, Andrew the Apostle, Andrey Melensky, Askold and Dir, Askold Grave Church, Askold's Grave (opera), Battle of Kruty, Dirham, Dnieper, Dnipro, Holodomor, Hungarian prehistory, Hungarians, Ivan Mazepa, Iziaslav II of Kiev, Kyiv, Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, Mariinskyi Park, National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide, Neoclassical architecture, Pannonia, Park, Primary Chronicle, Rotunda (architecture), Saint Nicholas Church, Dnipro, St. Nicholas Military Cathedral, Stele, Taras Shevchenko, Ukraine, Ukrainian Baroque, Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate).
Cemeteries in Kyiv
Landmarks in Kyiv
Monuments and memorials in Ukraine
National Landmarks in Kyiv
Parks in Kyiv

Alexey Verstovsky

Alexey Nikolayevich Verstovsky (Алексéй Никола́евич Верстóвский) was a Russian composer, musical bureaucrat and rival of Mikhail Glinka.

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Andrew the Apostle

Andrew the Apostle (Andréas; Andreas; אַנדּרֵאוָס; ʾAnd'raʾwās), also called Saint Andrew, was an apostle of Jesus.

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Andrey Ivanovich Melensky (Андрей Иванович Меленский; 1766–1833) was a Russian Imperial Neoclassical architect from Moscow who was appointed the city architect of Kiev (now Kyiv, Ukraine) in 1799 and held the post for some thirty years.

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Askold and Dir

Askold and Dir (Haskuldr or Hǫskuldr and Dyr or Djur in Old Norse; died in 882), mentioned in both the Primary Chronicle, the Novgorod First Chronicle, and the Nikon Chronicle, were the earliest known rulers of Kiev.

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Askold Grave Church

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Askold's Grave (opera)

Askold's Grave (also: Askold's Tomb, Russian: Аскольдова могила – Askol’dova mogila) is an opera in four acts by Alexey Verstovsky with a libretto by Mikhail Zagoskin.

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Battle of Kruty

The Battle of Kruty (Бій під Крутами, Biy pid Krutamy) took place on January 29 or 30, 1918, near Kruty railway station (today the village of Pamiatne, Nizhyn Raion, Chernihiv Oblast), about northeast of Kyiv, Ukraine, which at the time was part of Nezhinsky Uyezd of Chernigov Governorate.

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Dirham

The dirham, dirhem or drahm (درهم) is a unit of currency and of mass.

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Dnieper

The Dnieper, also called Dnepr or Dnipro, is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea.

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Dnipro

Dnipro is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants.

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Holodomor

The Holodomor, also known as the Ukrainian Famine, was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The Holodomor was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1930–1933 which affected the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union. While scholars are in consensus that the cause of the famine was man-made, it remains in dispute whether the Holodomor was directed at Ukrainians and whether it constitutes a genocide.

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Hungarian prehistory

Hungarian prehistory (magyar őstörténet) spans the period of history of the Hungarian people, or Magyars, which started with the separation of the Hungarian language from other Finno-Ugric or Ugric languages around, and ended with the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin around.

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Hungarians

Hungarians, also known as Magyars (magyarok), are a Central European nation and an ethnic group native to Hungary and historical Hungarian lands (i.e. belonging to the former Kingdom of Hungary) who share a common culture, history, ancestry, and language.

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Ivan Mazepa

Ivan Stepanovych Mazepa (Іван Степанович Мазепа; Iwan Mazepa Kołodyński) was a Ukrainian military, political, and civic leader who served as the Hetman of the Zaporizhian Host and the Left-bank Ukraine in 1687–1708.

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Iziaslav II of Kiev

Iziaslav II Mstislavich (at Izbornik – 13 November 1154) was Grand Prince of Kiev (1146–1154).

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Kyiv

Kyiv (also Kiev) is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine.

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Kyiv Pechersk Lavra

Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra or Kyievo-Pecherska Lavra (Києво-Печерська лавра; Киево-Печерская лавра, Kievo-Pecherskaya Lavra), also known as the Kyiv Monastery of the Caves, is a historic Eastern Orthodox Christian monastery which gave its name to one of the city districts where it is located in Kyiv. Askold's Grave and Kyiv Pechersk Lavra are Cemeteries in Kyiv, Landmarks in Kyiv and Tourist attractions in Kyiv.

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Mariinskyi Park

Mariinskyi Park (Маріїнський парк) is a park located in Pechersk neighborhood in front of the Supreme Council of Ukraine (Constitution Square), Hrushevsky Street, and Park Road. Askold's Grave and Mariinskyi Park are Cemeteries in Kyiv, parks in Kyiv and Tourist attractions in Kyiv.

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National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide

The National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide, formerly known as the Memorial in Commemoration of the Holodomor-Genocide in Ukraine, is Ukraine's national museum and a centre devoted to the victims of the Holodomor of 1932–1933, a man-made famine that killed millions in Ukraine. Askold's Grave and national Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide are monuments and memorials in Ukraine.

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Neoclassical architecture

Neoclassical architecture, sometimes referred to as Classical Revival architecture, is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy, France and Germany.

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Pannonia

Pannonia was a province of the Roman Empire bounded on the north and east by the Danube, coterminous westward with Noricum and upper Italy, and southward with Dalmatia and upper Moesia.

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Park

A park is an area of natural, semi-natural or planted space set aside for human enjoyment and recreation or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats.

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Primary Chronicle

The Russian Primary Chronicle, commonly shortened to Primary Chronicle (translit, commonly transcribed Povest' vremennykh let (PVL)), is a chronicle of Kievan Rus' from about 850 to 1110.

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Rotunda (architecture)

A rotunda is any roofed building with a circular ground plan, and sometimes covered by a dome.

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Saint Nicholas Church, Dnipro

The Saint Nicholas Church (Свято-Миколаївський храм) is a 19th-century Eastern Orthodoxy cathedral of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) and national monument in Dnipro, Ukraine.

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St. Nicholas Military Cathedral

St. Nicholas Military Cathedral (Військовий Микільський собор, Никольский военный собор), popularly known as The Great Nicholas (Великий Микола) was one of the military cathedrals of the former Russian Empire.

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Stele

A stele,From Greek στήλη, stēlē, plural στήλαι stēlai; the plural in English is sometimes stelai based on direct transliteration of the Greek, sometimes stelae or stelæ based on the inflection of Greek nouns in Latin, and sometimes anglicized to steles.) or occasionally stela (stelas or stelæ) when derived from Latin, is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected in the ancient world as a monument.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askold's_Grave

Also known as Askold's Tomb, Askoldova Mohyla.