One of the main pearls that attracts thousands of tourists to the capital of Ukraine is the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. The sanctuary has almost a thousand years of history. Here the Orthodoxy of Kievan Rus was born. God protects the caves of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, its religious buildings, having swept through many wars, conflicts, floods, catastrophes, rebellions and fires; these places are sacred to everyone whose soul fills love for the Lord. Under the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra there is a huge amount of underground passageways and caves that never served the purpose of the conspirators or rebels, but only served as an asylum for those who, leaving a gloomy vanity, sought God.
Today, thanks to many written sources of the 21st century, we know how the Kiev-Pechersk Monastery arose. Ilarion was the first who decided to devote himself to prayers on a plateau covered with dense forest. In the village of Berestove, Ilarion was put to death by a priest. However, the mundane vanity burdened him, and in search of solitude he went to the forest wilderness, where no one could interrupt his spiritual union with the Almighty. Later, he dug a cave in the ground, where he prayed.