St. Andrew's Cathedral.

Designed in 1754 by the Italian architect Bartholomeo Rastrelli, it is one of the few buildings to have survived intact with no reconstruction or significant damage. The single-domed cathedral, with its five lesser cupolas, seems to hover over the city. Its site was chosen because it was here that the Apostle Andrew, who first preached gospels in Kyivan- Rus, erected a cross. The church was built at the behest of Elizabeth, Peter the Great's pious daughter who visited Kyiv in 1744.