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3 days ago · At the Council of Florence, the Greek “metropolitan of Kiev and all Russia,” Isidore, was one of the major architects of the Union of Florence. Having signed the decree, he returned to Moscow in 1441 as a Roman cardinal but was rejected by both church and state, arrested, and then allowed to escape to Lithuania.
4 days ago · Almost the only survival of Kyiv’s former greatness was its role as the seat of an Eastern Orthodox metropolitan. A step forward came in 1516, when the grand duke Sigismund I granted Kyiv a charter of autonomy , thereby much stimulating trade.
5 days ago · The Kyiv Metro (Ukrainian: Київський метрополітен, romanized: Kyivskyi metropoliten, IPA: [ˈkɪjiu̯sʲkɪj ˌmɛtropol⁽ʲ⁾iˈtɛn]) is a rapid transit system in Kyiv owned by the Kyiv City Council and operated by the city-owned company Kyivskyi Metropoliten.
2 days ago · Kyiv (Kiev), chief city and capital of Ukraine. As the center of Kyivan (Kievan) Rus, the first eastern Slavic state, it acquired the title ‘Mother of Rus Cities.’ It was severely damaged during World War II, but the independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union in 1991 renewed its status as a major European capital.
4 days ago · The saint perceived that the throne of the Metropolitan, the spiritual center of churchly life in Rus, could not remain in the Kiev lands, where everything increasingly fell under the dependence of Catholic Poland.
2 days ago · Abbess Sophia was arrested and released several times in the period before Metropolitan Sergius’ “Declaration” of betrayal to the Church in 1927. Mother Sophia and her clergy, led by the young Father Dimitry Ivanov, were the first ones in Kiev who openly rejected it.
2 days ago · The Fourth Crusade in exchange for promised funds attempted to help the deposed emperor Alexius IV regain his throne. After taking Constantinople, returning Alexius IV to the throne, the revolt against and murder of Alexius IV left the Crusaders without payment.
