Our next stop is at Peter The Great's Headquarters. We climb the stairs to the porch and can see that the inside is used to store stuff. I would have expected the house to be opulent, but from the outside it is rather plain. We carry on to the Catholic Church of Mykola Prytysko, the oldest church in Podil. The entrance to the church has dark granite floors.
Walls are a dark green with earth tone decoration which gives a stunning effect.
There are remnants of ancient frescoes in similar colour. Inside, the church is beige bright. The iconostasis is rather plain, but there are remnants of old frescoes and a few nice icons. A wedding is underway under a canopy of scaffolding and wooden platforms. From the time I enter, a guest has been rattling cellophane and butcher paper as she wraps and re-wraps her wedding gift.