The Anthony caves of the Trinity Elijan monastery in Chernihiv - is a monument of underground religious architecture of the 11th -19th centuries..
They were founded in 1069 as a Christian cave monastery by Prince Svaytoslav Yarosl...

...cities", with the help of Anthony created a monastery similar to the Pechersky in his own capital. The intensive development of the cave monastery proceeded until ...result of these reorganizations the Anthony caves have acquired their present form. Today the Anthony caves is a complex of underground passages and chambers (the whole ...

...was fixed by a monk Anthony Pecherskyi in 1069. The “dug up” by his followers and him caves in the ravine of Boldyn Hills in course ...monument of underground building as “Anthony caves” In the ХІІ century at an entrance to caves a cruciform pillarless St. Elijah church with one top was ...

Anthony in Chernihiv and the foundation of cave Bogorodytskiy monastery on Boldini hills by him (1069), Yephrem – the hegumen of holly ...the monastery the legendary large caves are hidden. The known legend binds their beginning to the name of St. Anthony Pecherskiy.