“By order of the German Command the troops plundered, blew up,
and destroyed a very ancient cultural monument—the
Kievo-Pecherskaya Abbey. . . .
“The Uspenski Cathedral, built in 1075-89 by the order of Grand
Duke Svjatoslav, with murals painted in 1897 by the famous
painter V. V. Vereshchiagin, was blown up by the Germans on 3
November 1941.”