Askold Grave Church
The Church of St. Nicholas is a Neoclassical style rotunda in the Askold's Grave park of Kiev, Ukraine.
This former Russian Orthodox church was designed in 1809 by the Moscow-born architect Andrey Melensky and was underwritten by Samuil Meshcheryakov, a merchant from Voronezh.
The general contractor for the project was Vasiliy Serikov. The construction cost 8,000 rubles and the church was consecrated on 1 September 1810.
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