Askold Grave Church

The Church of St. Nicholas is a Neoclassical style rotunda in the Askold's Grave park of Kiev, Ukraine.

The rotunda of Saint Nicholas at Askold's Grave.

This former Russian Orthodox church was designed in 1809 by the Moscow-born architect Andrey Melensky and was underwritten by Samuil Meshcheryakov, a merchant from Voronezh.

The general contractor for the project was Vasiliy Serikov. The construction cost 8,000 rubles and the church was consecrated on 1 September 1810.

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