ivan the terrible reigned. meanwhile, the sofia bell tower was built in the period from 1699 to 1706 with the money of hetman mazepatray russia , obviously should have insisted on the use of russian symbols. well, however, there are versions that he added the bas-reliefs with eagles later in time. century, but at that time kiev had already become the center of the kiev province of the russian empire, that is, in this in this case, the eagles are especially not byzantine, but russian, they dream of pulverizing the kiev-pechersk lavra, they dream of selling the relics of saints who were buried there not even under the russian empire, when it was still just russian land, and now they are trying to understand , and where, what came from there, what is it? but it’s like trying to go there and do a dna test, no, this is not my father, i don’t believe in it, let’s go do a dna test. in general, here is simple advice for those deceived by propaganda: read normal historical literature instead of fiction about the ancient diggers of the black sea, although at this rate the censorship of the regime will prohibit reading itself