lately lyala has been working on her essays for school, so i have been trying to get out of the house and explore around kiev by myself. so i went to some of the touristy parts of kiev that i have already already been but i have not taken pics of. so here are some more pictures for yall. we will start at andriyivskyy, a cobblestone street that is the center of kiev's tourism. there are a lot of craft shops and other sites.
this is on the of the many statues to bohdan chmielnicki at the bottom of andriyivskyy st.
St. Andrew's church








at the top of the street is Ukraine's Foreign Affairs building


















next to the foreign affairs building is St. Mikail's Monastery. this complex was built recently in the 1990s on top of a 11th century monastery that was destroyed by the soviets to make way for a government complex. well that never happened so when the ukraine ssr became independent they rebuilt a church.












in front of st. mikail's monastery there is some statues that you see here:
princess olga of kiev in the middle
the cyrillic brothers: st. kyril and st. mefody on the right
some dude with a shepherds hook on the right












down the street there is yet another orthodox church/monastery call St. Sofia Monastery. in street in front of it there is another statue of bohdan chmielnicki with st. mikail's monastery behind it.














St. Sofia at sunset.











and then i was tired from doing all this walking for yall so i went home. until next time ...