Monument to the Magdeburg Rights (Kiev)

Monument to the Magdeburg Rights in Kiev

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Monument to the Magdeburg Rights in Kiev

Monument to the Magdeburg Rights (Ukrainian: Пам'ятник Маґдебурзькому праву) is a monument in Podil Raion, Kiev located at foothills of the former Mykhailo Hill right next to the Shore Highway. It is traditionally considered to be the oldest city's monument.

Names

Among other names there are the Column of the Magdeburg Rights, the Baptizing of Ruthenia Monument, the Lower Monument of the Saint Volodymyr.

History

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Staircase entrance at Volodymyrsky Descent

The monument was erected in 1802 to commemorate return to the city its Magdeburg rights which were first granted back in the 15th century by Alexander Jagiellon. That event the city's residents celebrated for three days with illumination and dance and later collected 10,000 rubles for construction of a chapel and a monument with fountain. The monument's author was a famous Kiev architect Andrey Melensky. The brick pavilion over a spring was consecrated on August 15, 1802.

Since 1804 the Metropolitan Serapion started crucessions to the monument for blessing of water.

See also

• Christianization of Kievan Rus'
• Independence Monument, Kiev
• Saint Vladimir Monument

Further reading

• Encyclopedic handbook: Kyiv. Monument to the Magdeburg Rights. "Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia". Kiev 1981.
• Tolochko, L., Hrybovska, O. Monument to the Saint Prince Volodymyr in Kyiv. "Tekhnika". Kiev 2007.
• Zakrevsky, N. Description of Kiev.

External links

• Magdeburg Column. gorodkiev.com.
• Monument to the Magdeburg Rights. turson.at.ua.