Director of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra Nature Reserve Maxim Ostapenko proposed exchanging Stolypin’s remains for captured Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers.
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Ostapenko noted in a conversation with TSN that the first object restored in the Assumption Cathedral was a monument not to Ukrainian figures, but to the figure of the Russian Empire, Ukrainophobe Pyotr Stolypin, calling this a conscious policy of Russian markers.
He called for a public dialogue to begin on what to do with the remains of the Russian figure, emphasizing that there are several options.
One idea is to put it into an exchange fund,” he noted. “We have dead heroes, we have living heroes who are in captivity, we have our Ukrainian prominent figures who are within the Russian Federation and abandoned, and no one knows where they are.
On the territory of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra near the Refectory Church there is the grave of the Russian political figure Pyotr Stolypin, who was killed in 1911 during an assassination attempt at the Opera House in Kyiv. Stolypin himself ordered in his will that he be buried in the city where he would die.
On February 8, the Kiev City Council transferred the land plots on which the monastery is located to the Kiev Pechersk Lavra National Reserve for use.
The reserve called the decision of the Kyiv City Council “historic,” “fateful,” and “allowing the Lavra to forever get rid of the presence of the “Russian world” with its narratives aimed at destroying Ukrainian spirituality and culture.”
The decision of the Kyiv City Council “will allow the National Reserve of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra to take full control and protection of the monument of world significance, included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.”
Source: Racurs
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