C , the base of the St. George ( Assumption ) Church of the Kievan prince Vsevolod made to the official record of Kaneva , though the city existed earlier . A classic example of Byzantine architecture. In 1185 the walls of this temple was preparing the defense of the Polovtsian after unsuccessful campaign of Novgorod- Seversky Prince Igor's . In 1587was buried in Lviv executed Cossack leader Ivan Horseshoe . Destroyed by the Turks in the XVII century. The church was rebuilt in 1805, and in 1861 went from here to Mount Chernecha funeral procession brought out from St. Petersburg ashes of the poet Taras Shevchenko. Temple of acting .In the adjacent building of the Basilian school now houses the Museum of Folk Decorative Art , which previously occupied the premises of the temple. Nearby is a monument of st. Kanevskomu Macarius , who in the XVII century. was abbot of the monastery and Kanev was killed during the Turkish invasion.
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