The article discusses the most significant monumental paintings
of the Dormition Cathedral and Trinity Gate Church of Kyiv-Pechersk
Lavra created in the first third of the 18th century. They are сonsidered
in the context of the most important trends of spiritual and cultural life
of the Hetmanate. The author concentrates attention on the important
details that characterize the system of painting in those temples
and underlines the close connection between fresco images marked by
the inscriptions with the church literature of that time. Besides, among
the results of the research there is the point that the Holy Liturgy is
the most significant theme in the theological program of paintings
of both Lavra temples.
It is noted that the topic of the Holy Liturgy became one of the central
themes in Ukrainian theology of the second half of the 17th century.
Sharp disputes between Kyiv and Moscow theological circles were
concentrated on the very moment of the Holy Liturgy associated with
Eucharistic Transubstantiation. The author mentions publications of
the Ukrainian Orthodox printing houses of that time, which covered
that issue, and underlines a number of discrepancies in other dogmatic
moments found in Kyiv and Moscow publications.