Bogdan Khmelnytsky Monument, west elevation
The Bohdan Khmelnytsky Monument (Ukrainian: Пам'ятник Богданові Хмельницькому) is a monument in Kyiv, built in 1888, dedicated to the Hetman of Zaporizhian Host Bohdan Khmelnytsky built in 1888. It is located almost at the centre of Sophia Square, which was originally the city’s main square, and remains and important fulcrum of Kyiv City Centre. It sits on the axis that unites the belltowers of St Sophia’s Cathedral and St Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery at the other end of Volodymyrs’kyi Passage.
This is where residents of Kiev met Khmelnytsky leading his Cossacks regiments through the Golden Gate into city on 23 December 1648 after his victory over Polish Army at the battle of Pyliavtsi. It was designed by Mikhail Mikeshin although it is both less elaborate than Mikeshin’s original plans, and is shorn of their overtly anti-Polish and anti-Semitic aspects. The statue was cast in 1879 in St Petersburg but not displayed in Kyiv until 1888.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.
Bogdan Khmelnytsky Monument, west elevation
The Bohdan Khmelnytsky Monument (Ukrainian: Пам'ятник Богданові Хмельницькому) is a monument in Kyiv, built in 1888, dedicated to the Hetman of Zaporizhian Host Bohdan Khmelnytsky built in 1888. It is located almost at the centre of Sophia Square, which was originally the city’s main square, and remains and important fulcrum of Kyiv City Centre. It sits on the axis that unites the belltowers of St Sophia’s Cathedral and St Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery at the other end of Volodymyrs’kyi Passage.
This is where residents of Kiev met Khmelnytsky leading his Cossacks regiments through the Golden Gate into city on 23 December 1648 after his victory over Polish Army at the battle of Pyliavtsi. It was designed by Mikhail Mikeshin although it is both less elaborate than Mikeshin’s original plans, and is shorn of their overtly anti-Polish and anti-Semitic aspects. The statue was cast in 1879 in St Petersburg but not displayed in Kyiv until 1888.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.