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Saint Andrew's Descent - is a historic descent connecting Kyiv's Upper Town neighborhood and the historically commercial Podil neighborhood.
The descent, located between two hills, is the shortest passageway from the historic Old or Upper Town (Kniazivs’ka Hora) to the commercial Podil neighborhood.One of the hills, known as Uzdyhal’nytsia, was the place where pre-Christian idols once stood , and another hill, called Zamkova Hora, served as a castle hill during the Middle Ages. For many centuries, this passageway was very steep and inconvenient, that's the reason why there were not any settlements for a long time. The first buildings were erected here only in the 17th century, and the first apartment buildings began appearing towards the end of the 19th century.
In 1711, by the order of then-Governor of Kyiv, the route between the Zamkova and Andriivskyi mountains were expanded, thus allowing traffic to become more suitable for horses and wagon carriages.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, the street was mainly inhabited by merchants and craftspeople.
Interesting fact:
According to a legend, there was once a sea where the Dnieper River now flows. When Saint Andrew came to Kyiv and erected a cross on the place where the Saint Andrew's Church now stands, the sea went away. The only part that remained of the sea is under the mountain on which Kyiv sits today. When the church was built there in the 18th century, a spring opened under the altar. The church has no bells, because, according to the legend, when the first bell strikes, the water can revive again and flood the left bank of Kyiv.
Product Features
Material: beeswax
Weight: 260 g
Вimensions: ≈ 10x6 cm
Box dimensions: 15.5x6.5x6.6 cm
* Since the figure is made from natural beeswax, the color of the product may differ from the color of the product in the photo and from batch to batch and vary from yellow to brown.