Carl Peter Mazer [1807-1884], Swedish painter and
photographer. In 1838 he moved from
Helsingfors to St. Petersburg.
In total, he spent 15 years in Russian Empire living in
Yaroslavl, Moscow, Kyiv, and many other places. He traveled along the Volga
with barge haulers from Nizhny Novgorod to Astrakhan, making sketches of life
and nature. Early 1851 Carl Mazer opened a daguerreotype company in Moscow,
where he worked until the end of the year. In 1852 he was busy with making both
daguerreotype and photographic portraits. Besides he took orders for oil
paintings copies, daguerreotype and watercolor portraits and engravings. But
for Ukrainains his pencil drawings of Kiev are most valuable. Due to his
masterpieces you may look at how main churches of our capital looked hundred
years ago and now.
Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv is an outstanding
architectural monument of Kyivan Rus. The cathedral is one of the city's best
known landmarks and the first heritage site in Ukraine to be inscribed on the
World Heritage List along with the Kiev Cave Monastery complex.
St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery is a functioning
monastery in Kyiv. The monastery is located on the right bank of the Dnieper
River on the edge of a bluff northeast of the Saint Sophia Cathedral. The site
is located in the historic administrative Uppertown and overlooks the city's
historical commercial and merchant quarter, the Podil neighborhood.
The Saint Andrew's Church is a major Baroque church located in Kyiv.
The church was constructed by design of the famous Italian architect
Bartolomeo Rastrelli. The church is part of the National Sanctuary "Sophia
of Kiev" as a landmark of cultural heritage.
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