This might seem like a detail, but this is right next to a busy playground and around the corner from a school. The design makes it easier for people to drive up on the sidewalk where 100s of kids walk each day.
This is the first stone church in ancient Rus, and in my timeline everyone is angry. The building is recent, it was rebuilt in 1941 and later in the 1990s, but it's quite a parallel that the last time it was destroyed it was thanks to Hitler.
Actually hard to fathom. There are sites within that monastery that are a full millennium old. The Russians hold their own so-called values in the same disrepute they hold us.