Publications
Навязанное послушание духовного плода не принесет
(интервью с иеромонахом Николаем Сахаровым)
06.09.2026 Интервью с иеромонахом Николаем Сахаровым — племянником архимандритаСофрония Сахарова, известного афонского духовника, старца, богослова,основавшего Свято-Иоанно-Предтеченский монастырь в Великобритании в графствеЭссекс, а также автора многих книг, в том числе «О ... 
Spiritual fatherhood
03.01.2026 A journal version of the book by Schema-ArchimandriteGabriel (Bunge) “Spiritual fatherhood”, in which the theme of spiritual guidance is opened upon the basis of the writings of Evagrius Ponticus
The venerable fathers took very little from the world, but gave the world a great deal
10.09.2025 An interview with His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufriy of Kyiv and All Ukraine
Schema-Archimandrite Theodosius (Smaga) 1877-1946
02.08.2023 Schema-Archimandrite Theodosius (in monasticism — Trifiliy, in the world — Trofim Arseniyovych Smaha)“How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!.. For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things” (Rom. 11:33, 36, King James Version)
A letter from the brethren to Metropolitan Pavel in confinement
19.07.2023 Your Eminence, dear Vladyka and father! Bless us in these sorrowful days to express to you words of sincere support and deep filial gratitude. For thirty years you have governed the holy Kyiv Caves monastery, and every monk, from the senior brethren to the simplest novice, can testify before the Lord to a simple truth – the Abbot of the holy Kyiv Lavra is a true Pastor and a zealous servant of the Church. The experience of personal converse with you has left an indelible mark in the ...
Appeal to the brethren from the place of detention
18.07.2023 I am writing to you from the Lukianivka pre-trial detention centre in Kyiv ...
Choir master
(in memory of Archimandrite Roman (Podlubniak))
09.07.2023 Recollections of the precentor of the seminary choir, Archimandrite Roman (Podlubniak),our dear teacher, mentor and father.
Is it the joy of the fact that "God" is written?
(struggle for the preamble of the Constitution)
28.06.2023 Session hall of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. June 25, 1996. Excerpt from the transcript of the 103rd plenary meeting. The meeting is chaired by the Chairman of MOROZ O.O.
First Photos of the Lavra after Opening in 1988
(archival photographs)
25.06.2023 06/25/1988 (exactly 35 years ago) the first buildings of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra were passed to the monastic brethren. The inhabitants of the monastery came to the Caves’ hills to light up the prayer lampad here. These photos are the part of the private archive of metropolitan Jonathan of Tulchin and Bratslav who was the first Vicegerent of the Kiev-Caves Lavra after the rebirth of the monastic life here in 1988.
At the Call of the Heart
(interview with Samuel Milko)
28.04.2023 Leave everything and come to the Lavra, overcoming doubts and misunderstandings of the loved ones, but how one can explain to them that here and now something important is happening not only for the Lavra but, in general, for the whole Orthodoxy, that, wherever you are, whatever you do, your thoughts are still at the Lavra gates unable to resist this impulse of the soul and heart. Thousand-kilometer distances, moving to another country, which is already dangerous due to martial law, ... 
Our Kirillich
20.07.2022 And how does so much kindness fit into one man? … It is hard to say when Vasyl Kutsyn gave himself over to what was by no means a romantic enthusiasm for monasticism. But when, in the autumn of 2001, he came to the Pochaiv Lavra, he already had eight years of hard work behind him — first in his native Transcarpathia, and then in the Czech Republic and Russia. Without going into the details of that difficult period of wanderings abroad, let us note only how steadily the adolescent ...
Монашество как высшая степень любви к Богу
(интервью с митрополитом Павлом)
15.03.2022 Монашество... Сколько противоречивых суждений существует вокруг людей, сугубо посвятивших свою жизнь Богу. Понять, что такое монашество на самом деле, наверное, не дано тем, кто сам не живет в монастыре. Но все же мы решили попробовать заглянуть, насколько это ... 
Is theology a useless waste of time?
(an article by Bishop Sylvester (Stoichev))
07.10.2021 Let us ask ourselves the question: “What is the essence of our Christian life?” The answer is obvious – it is in the knowledge of God: “that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent” (John 17:3, King James Version). Let us ask one more question: “What place in this process does theology occupy? And is it obligatory?”
The role and significance of monasticism in the salvation of the human soul
15.07.2021 A paper delivered by Metropolitan Pavel at the all-Ukrainian congress of the monastics of the UOC in the Holy Dormition Pochaiv Lavra on 15 July 2021
Memories
(interview with Metropolitan Pavel)
19.04.2021 An interview on the occasion of the 60th birthday of the abbot of the Kyiv Caves Lavra
Voice customizer
(interview with Lyubov Petrovna Kryzhanovskaya)
20.03.2021 Liubov Petrivna Kryzhanovska is a singer well known in Ukraine, who for decades gave people her talent on the stages of the National theatres of opera and operetta, and a teacher in the vocal department of the P. I. Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine. Since 1989 she has been a consultant in voice to the students of the Kyiv theological schools, and the unfailing coach and musical mentor of the singers and clergy of many monasteries and, first of all, of the Kyiv Caves Lavra
Problems of the church calendar: the new and the old style
(an article by Bishop Sylvester (Stoichev))
01.04.2020 In recent times the problem of the church calendar has been actively discussed in Ukrainian society. Some Christian churches in Ukraine that traditionally used the Julian calendar in worship have decided to move to the so-called new style. The question of the use of the new calendar in the religious life of Ukraine has already passed from the theoretical plane into a purely practical one. In this connection we shall try to review briefly the history of the calendar question in the ... 
Монашество — это блаженство
(интервью с Предстоятелем)
02.03.2020 Интервью с Блаженнейшим Митрополитом Онуфрием, Предстоятелем Украинской Православной Церкви
Лавру откроют, когда каштаны зацветут
(беседа с архимандритом Антонием (Новицким))
10.06.2018 В этом году исполняется ровно 30 лет, как Киево-Печерскую Лавру вернули Церкви. В то время, спустя десятилетия после запустения святыни, даже среди верующих уже мало кто верил, что такое будет возможно. И вот, 12 июня 1988 года в праздник Всех святых, в земле Русской ... About this part of the section
Publications is the largest part of the Articles section. It holds the longer texts: memoirs and conversations with people whose lives were bound up with the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, archival photographs with explanations, church documents and addresses, and texts on church history and tradition. The material spans many years, and the oldest of it preserves testimony about events there is no longer anyone left to ask about.
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