Ancient Kiev – the cradle of Eastern-Slavic civilization

Dear friends, for me, as I am sure for many of you, there is something mysterious and innermost in this short word – Kiev. Kiev is the history itself. Here, on the hillsides of Dnieper blessed by Andrew the Apostle was built the first Kiev Acropolis, its Detinets. (Detinets is one of names for an inner town stronghold). Just right here was founded the world capital that could compete with Athens and Rome, they called it “the Mother of Rus’ Cities”. Right here was formed the core of Eastern-Slavic civilization, its culture and nationhood. Ancient Kiev became the center of gravity in the process of creation of states of Eastern Europe. In ІХ-Х centuries the Kievan Detinets occupied the area of ten hectares of ground, its population was approximately two thousands of people. Despite of this, it effectively managed so great state as the Kievan Rus' spread from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea, from the Carpathians to the Volga. Creation of this “state galaxy” became possible by the virtue of special force of gravity of spiritual and material components of Ancient Kiev. Lately, this Rus’ galaxy gave birth to such countries as Ukraine, Russia, Belorussia. So, if we want to strengthen and develop our country – Ukraine, it is necessary to save and protect this gravity of the Kievan Detinets, whatever it sounds like.

If Kiev has other historical destiny, a lot of cultural sites of Kiev will be the riches of the world culture treasure. Consider how priceless only the following historical sites: the Church of the Dime, defense fortifications of the Kievan Detinets – its trenches and trench parapets. How can we return this losses, at least partly? We dared to embody a seemingly crazy idea – to create the cultural capital of Eastern-Slavic states, the Kievan Detinets, by reconstruction of full-scale architectural image of the ancient city. In a such way, we dared not only to preserve for centuries the real image of Ancient Kiev, but to approach to the key of the greatest mystery of humankind – the mystery of origination of civilizations on the Earth. Let’s do it together!