The decoration in the middle of the church reminds by its appearance the character of the thing of the last century. The iconostasis led the Chezny in 5 undermines in the Rococo style. ”

As A.I. Savenko wrote in the article “The Great Church of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra,” published in the Kiev-Lianin newspaper No. 215 and 216 for 1901, until the mid-1980s, the Big Church decayed, its concern for (1893) was entrusted with the academician of architecture 5 N. Nikolaev. These major works began in 1893. By nudity; Ten from the plaster clearly turned out to be the ancient parts of the walls, as well as later extensions, and the damage that penetrates the masonry of the walls, arches and vaults also affected. There were almost no walls, arches or vaults, they had cracks …

All parts of the walls of arches and vaults turned out to be damaged, carefully and gradually disassembled and sealed with selected brick, based on a solution of Portland cement. After the end of this part of the work was carried out a new plaster. At the same time, a number of other architectural and technical works were carried out. First of all: the new windows were significantly expanded in the upper tier. Then new windows were inserted in all windows. The altar was raised and the solea was arranged; steam ventilation was arranged in the church and the steam heating. Both in the lower parts of the church and in the choirs wooden floors are replaced by elegant floors from metlakh tiles; at the same time iron is laid instead of wooden beams “, ” The Holy See (main altar) consists of 4 stone walls with four plastered hugolnym hole on the east side of the throne, covered with slabs of red marble; apparently all lined with silver plated decks of hammered work.

As it was written in the magazine “Kievskaya otdina” for 1899, “According to a local newspaper (Kievlyanin) 118), recently the Great Lavra Church restored the restoration work of this magnificent temple. The main works are currently focused on the making of carved models of two marble canopy above the relics of the book. Vladimir and Metropolitan Michael, contained in the niches at the ends of the solea, the marble interior iconostasis and the same in the choirs, marble wall kiots, marble choir sections of the main square ”.

From archival sources it is known that in +1899 in the vestibule and “in the upper and lower areas near the two side walls of the friezes and socles” was working a new granite floor from the Gnivan gray granite, and the technology of the device of granite floors is described in detail:

“… the seam between the plates is allowed no more than 1-0.5 mm …

… the sides of the plates or profiles inside the vestibule must be made under.

a thin wall … with rounding of the upper front edge … (fixing plates of the vikonuvalos by means of iron Stir, or piron) … Granite slabs the bottom floor beach should be square … 12 ver. (53.34 cm), and in thickness. 3.5 up (15.56 cm) with the same triangular wedges, floor plates in the vestibule should consist of a Christmas tree, and the wedges or triangles should fit tightly against the base …

Granite slabs for a pestle in the vestibule should be 5 – rows without rollers, lying pubic with rounding of the upper edge on the UA vertices. (1.11 cm), each steps must have a clean width of 5 vertices. (35.56 cm) and lifting 3.5 top. 15.56 cm).

“… The lower parts of the walls of the church are temporarily marbled …

In the same style in which the project of the main iconostasis is developed, there will be: an iconic interior of the iconostasis, 2 iconostases for extensions in the choir in the name of the Lord’s First-Imaged Image and Andrew the First-Called, 4 marble canopy with relics equal to ап. Prince

Vladimir, itropolitan Michael, prep. Theodosius and the particles of the relics of the Pechersk saints, several kiots and choirs …, a beautiful marble balustrade in the choirs … in the Byzantine style …

For the construction of new iconostases, the old wooden iconostases are temporarily delivered, and the main iconostasis is not all but one of its tier, crowned again with a Byzantine cross. All 4 iconostasis capitally updated and gilded. Updates bypassed: 10,000 rubles, iconostases of the side-chapels in the choirs, updated by laurel masters … ”

“On August 6, the solemn renewal of the Great Church took place.” P. Lebedintsev gives the dimensions of the Assumption Cathedral: “The length of a large church with an altar is 21 sazh., Width 20.5 sazh., Height in the walls is 7 sazh., From the floor to the dome with a cross 22 sazh …”.

  1. Titov provides the following Information about the Assumption Cathedral: “… height up to the roof 7, from the roof to the cross of the middle dome 15, and the whole height 22 sazh.”.