Informational speech presentation for COMM1040-01 Intro to Public Speaking class at UMSL, Spring 2008

2. History and Present
Informational Speech
Informational Speech
Kostiantyn Iakovliev
Kostiantyn Iakovliev
COMM1040 Sec. 001
COMM1040 Sec. 001
Spring, 2008
Spring, 2008
Elanora M. Nappier
Elanora M. Nappier

5. 
Established in the XV-XVI
centuries
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Times of decline and restoration
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1930-ies – destroyed by the
Soviets
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1990-ies to present - restoration

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Altar – East
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High crosspiece
points to the
North
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Onion dome
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Rebuilt in 18581868

8. 
Cave ways to
High Pilgrims’
Pavilion
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Main entrance
to Nikolai
Church
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Secret ways

9. 
The oldest one
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Church Cemetery

10. 
Made of
wood
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Open only 4
times a year

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John Krukov
Born in a poor family in
Kursk, Russia in 1795
Dutchware workshop
Monastic Novice at the
age of 38
Housekeeping
Healing people
17 years in recluse

12. 
Through Mt Tabor
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Made of quarrystone
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Legend of secret
building

13. Marble Sculptures of Nikolai Shmatko (2005) Svyatogorskaya lavra
/Svyatogorskaya Blessed Virgin - N.Shmatko/ Svyato-Uspenskaya Lavra.
Retrieved February 17, 2008, from the Marble Sculptures of Nikolai
Shmatko website: http://www.kingofmarbleshmatko.com/engver/w79z.html. Provides the historical background of the
Lavra.
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (2008, January 28). Sviatohirsk Lavra.
Retrieved February 16, 2008, from the Wikipedia website:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sviatohirsk_Lavra. Gives the basic information
about the history of Lavra.
Святогорск on line. (n. d.) ЛАВРА. Retrieved February 17, 2008, from the
Святогорск on line website: http://www.svyatogorsk.dn.ua/html/eaada.html.
The official site of the city of Sviatohirsk provides information for tourists
about Lavra in Russian