Monastery of the Holy Cross
Historic residence · Poltava, Ukraine
Philosophers & religious figures
History
The Women's Monastery of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross is a convent of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church located in Poltava, Ukraine. The nunnery is located on Monastyrska Hill in the Poltava city neighborhood known as Chervonyi Shlyakh.
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About Evgenios Voulgaris
Eugenios Voulgaris or Boulgaris was a Greek Orthodox cleric, author, educator, mathematician, astronomer, physicist, and philosopher. He wrote about every discipline: legal, historical, theological, grammatical, linguistic, astronomy, political, mathematics, archaeology, music, secularism, euthanasia, and the tides. He wrote speeches, poems, appeals to Catherine II for the liberation of Greece, and hundreds of letters. He edited valuable editions of Byzantine writers and classical books and translated many texts from Latin into French. He was one of the students of Methodios Anthrakites. He translated many important foreign language academic documents to Greek. He was bishop of Cherson. He was a leading contributor to the Modern Greek Enlightenment.
From the Wikipedia article “Evgenios Voulgaris”, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Visiting
This building is recorded as a residence of the people listed; it may be privately owned and not open to the public. Opening times, tickets and access change, so check the official website before you travel. Get directions.
