Description of the attraction
If you walk along Naberezhno-Khreshchatitskaya Street, then inevitably pay attention to the magnificent building at number 27. This is the building of the famous Kiev-Mohyla Academy. Previously, there was an old wooden building in which students of the Academy studied, but in 1778 it burned down and it was decided to build a more fire-resistant stone building on this site. The architect was a graduate of the Academy itself, the famous sculptor Ivan Grigorovich-Barsky. At first the building was one-story, but in the first quarter of the 19th century, the building was completed and expanded by the architect Andrey Melensky.
After the reorganization of the Kiev-Mohyla Academy into the Theological Seminary, its main building was located here. It was here that many celebrities studied, for example, the outstanding Ukrainian composer, author of the first Ukrainian opera "Zaporozhets beyond the Danube" Semyon Gulak-Artemovsky, as evidenced by the memorial plaque placed on the building. However, after a new building was built for the seminary, the building of the former Kiev-Mohyla Academy was empty and they began to lease it. Only in 1914 did the authorities pay attention to the building, and even then only because representatives of the local Black Hundred organization “Union of the Russian People” demanded that it be taken away from the Jewish community, which rented the building for the school. However, the scandal ended in nothing - the First World War that followed soon and the revolution that followed it with the Civil War brought to the fore the more pressing problems. In Soviet times, the building housed educational institutions that had nothing to do with either the Mohilyanka, which was forgotten at that time, and even less with the seminary. And only at the end of the twentieth century, the Kiev-Mohyla Academy was revived here, which today is one of the best universities in Ukraine.
