Holy Cross Monastery in Poltava

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1650, to commemorate the victory of the rebels over the forces of Polish magnates and gentry and liberation Poltava and region from the Polish gentry slavery, near the town, on a high hill covered with forest age, with the permission of the Metropolitan of Kiev, the famous Ukrainian church leader and writer Sylvester Kosiv was established Poltava Holy Cross Monastery, which is the southernmost among the so-called Gorodyansky.