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Show KIEV: THE MART AND THE SHRINE OF RUSSIA Kiev, which became a buttle con tor once more during the Polo-Polslunlk lighting, already bns changed bands ten times In three years with Its occupation oc-cupation by the Poles earlier this year. Mother of llusshiu cities, nlo the Jerusalem of Itussln. Kiev did not live In the past, oven before Its recent Kaleidoscopic Ka-leidoscopic udventuros. though It was sutlWIently significant a thousand years ago to glo Its name to a tbreo-ceutury tbreo-ceutury purled of ltiiHslan history. Iloth tho Wall street and tho Plymouth Ply-mouth ltocl; of ItuMln, each February found thousands of merchants crowd-lug crowd-lug Uh fair to contract for merchandise merchan-dise and produce, especially beet sugar, and other seasons found hundreds of thousands of pilgrims thronging Its unique sllrlue, the Content of the Caves. Fow cities offer such nn ngglomern-tlon ngglomern-tlon of tho old nii'd the new. Kiev lies upon tho muddy Dnieper, the Ohio rltor of ltussln. formerly carrier of Lome ?('0.(XK).(KK worth of freight nn-nually nn-nually for the U.OOO.OOO people within its basin. Near Its slto Prince Vladl-rJr Vladl-rJr herded his people, for wholesale baptism, after ho had forsaken bis pagan pa-gan gods rud thousand wives for Christianity. ltusslans embraced tho new religion with nil the fervor with which they had offered human sacrlllces to the abandoned Idol, Perun. While Vladimir Vladi-mir held political sway at Kiev there came n lowly monk, Anthony, who took up his abode In a cave. Other devout men followed his example. Archaeologists Archaeolo-gists sluco have recognized In these caves the homes of dwellers of tho stone nge. The enves constitute but one feivturo of the famous monastery which, with Its streets of churches, cells, Inns nnd schools, Is n smnll city In Itseir. Among tho mummies that formerly Iny In open colllns, enveloped In costly robes, was that of Nestor, tho Russian Herodotus, whoso chronicles are responsible re-sponsible for tho tradition that Kiev wus fouudeil by threo brothers In tho ninth century. From tho "Cave Town" quarter of the city one emerges suddenly Into the Podnl, or trading quarter, suggesting n New England factory city, with Hh mills nnd shops, for paper, machinery, tobacco, ohemleuls nnd hardware. Kiev not only wns the chief sent of the Itus-slnn Itus-slnn beet sugar trade, but ulso dealt heavily In timber, live stock mid grain. Its recent growth bns been rapid. In 1HM) Is hnd less than '.'OO.OOO people, peo-ple, and In 1011 more than ri()0.0O. Oldest of the better known cities of Itusftlu, Kiev gate ltussht her llrst Christian church, first library, first Christian school, nnd today It boasts the oldest cathedral of the former om-litre, om-litre, that of St. Sophia. Therein Is the socnlled "Virgin of the Unbreak able Wall." IlecaiiKO the figure resisted re-sisted the vandal freur.y or the Tatars Ta-tars when they smashrd othor price-loss price-loss treasures of the church. Kiev Is the seat of government of the new republic of Ukraine. It Is (K-'l miles southwest of Moscow and 270 miles north of Odessa. |