Chernihiv’s Savior Cathedral Gets Its “Passport,” Donors Receive Awards, and Locals Get Another Reason to Be Proud of Their City

The bilingual album-monograph The Savior Cathedral in Chernihiv: Within the Coordinates of Rus, presented in Chernihiv a few days ago, is more than a local cultural event. It is a step towards decolonizing Eastern European medieval studies. Until now, the history of Rus has circulated in international scholarship through Russian historiography, its terminology, and its frame of reference. The authors therefore set out to bring the Ukrainian scholarly perspective to the world without intermediari

“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction…”