MODELING OF ARRANGEMENT OF THE UNIFIED KYIV-KANIV NECROPOLIS OF THE GRAND PRINCE OF KYIV VSEVOLOD OLHOVYCH AND THE HYPOTHESIS REGARDING THE IDENTITY OF THE CHURCH OF THE CHRONICULAR MONASTERY OF SAINT SIMEON AND THE STRUCTURE OF KYIV ST.CYRIL'S CHURCH

The article continues the author’s scientific research in the field of arrangement of the burial vault at the St. Cyryl’s Church in Kyiv and its ktitor’s issues. The strategy of researching the monument from its own sources with consideration and analysis of contradictory indirect evidence of the chronicles was used. Reviewing the previous arguments, the author comes to the conclusion that the Grand Prince of Kyiv Vsevolod Olhovych created an unified Kyiv-Kaniv necropolis for his family. Basing on the results of modeling with the use of the data of the chronicles, a scope of people from the princely family of Svyatoslavyches was determined, for whom arkosols were arranged in the burial vaults at the Kyiv St. Cyril’s and Kaniv St. George’s Churches. The data obtained leads to the bold assumption about the identity of the church of the Simeon Monastery and the Church of St. Cyril, in terms of their dedication. The analysis of descriptive (pictorial) sources of the Kyiv church leads to such a vision of the author. The publication aims to critically examine some of the obtained (unexpected) results of the research among the widest possible scope of medievalists