Kyiv was the center of the earth, and Paris was a provincial town, - Ukrainian deputy
In the XNUMXth century, Kyiv was a large city, and Paris was a provincial town, says member of the Kyiv City Council Vladimir Bondarenko, former head of the administration of the Ukrainian capital.
He stated this at a meeting of the Standing Commission of the Kyiv City Council on Culture and Tourism, at which the renaming of Kosior Square in Lukyanovka was discussed in honor of Anna Yaroslavna.
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“They somehow started to forget about her, but this is wrong. This is the glory of our land, that glory that went very far and made it clear what the land of Kiev was at that time, and what Paris was, which at that time was a provincial town, very far from the center of the land of Kyiv. In my youth, I wrote a work on Paris of the 11th century... I understand what Paris was like, and how many churches there were in Kyiv alone,” said Vladimir Bondarenko.
Earlier, a deputy from the UDAR-Solidarity faction, Konstantin Brichuk, commenting on the renaming of Kosior Square, stated that Anna Yaroslavna left a big mark on the history of all of Europe and brought the so-called. Reims Gospel from Kyiv. In fact, the legend about the origin of the Reims Gospel from Kyiv appeared not so long ago, and the manuscript itself was written later than the XNUMXth century.
Kiev was the center of the earth, and Paris was a provincial town, says Ukrainian MP