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368 VOLODYMYR I. MEZENTSEVthe cathedral's construction. 10 It probably occurred after Mstislav's death,when his rival Iaroslav held sway over Chernihiv (1036-1054). It is likelythat the church was completed by Iaroslav's son, Sviatoslav, who receivedChernihiv as his patrimonial principality according to Iaroslav's "Testament"and reigned there from 1054 through 1073. This supposition is supportedby the fact that in 1076 Sviatoslav was buried in the ChernihivCathedral of the Transfiguration, even though at the time he was prince ofKiev (1073-1076) and consequently could have been buried in Kiev's St.Sophia, like his parents and his younger brother Vsevolod (|1093), or in theTithe Church, like his older brother Iziaslav (fl078). Thus, although workon the Cathedral of the Transfiguration in Chernihiv began before St.Sophia in Kiev, apparently its construction was finished later than that ofthe St. Sophias in both Kiev and Novgorod (1045-1050).Given the long duration of the construction of the Cathedral of theTransfiguration, during the reigns in Chernihiv of Mstislav Volodimerovichand Sviatoslav Iaroslavich, it is not surprising that some architectural historianssee a similarity between its plan and the plans of Kiev's TitheChurch built in 989-996" and the Church of the Mother of God built inTmutorokan' in 1022 by Mstislav, 12 while others perceive a likeness withSt. Sophia in Kiev. 13 Some also find analogues between the plan of theChernihiv cathedral and the plans of the Constantinopolitan churches ofMyrelaion (Budrum Cami; 10th century) and Eski-Imaret Cami (11th century).14 However, for analogues to the Chernihiv cathedral the majority of10Iurii S. Aseev, Arkhitektura Kyivs'koi Rusi (Kiev, 1969), p. 49; Pavel A. Rappoport,"Russkaia arkhitektura X-XIII vv.," Arkheologiia SSSR: Svod arkheologicheskikh istochnikov,no. E 1 -47 (Leningrad, 1982), p. 40." Samuel H. Cross, Mediaeval Russian Churches (Cambridge, Mass., 1949), pp. 15-16;Hryhorii N. Lohvyn (Grigorii N. Logvin), Chernigov, Novgorod-Severskii, Glukhov, PutivV(Moscow, 1965), pp. 32-34; A. I. Komech, "Spaso-Preobrazhenskii sobor v Chernigove," inDrevnerusskoe iskusstvo: Zarubezhnye sviazi, ed. G. V. Popov (Moscow, 1975), pp. 25-26;Hubert Faensen and Vladimir Ivanov, Early Russian Architecture (London, 1975), p. 336; WilliamC. Brumfield, Gold in Azure: One Thousand Years of Russian Architecture (Boston,1983), p. 32.12Istoriia ukrains'koho mystetstva, vol. 1 (Kiev, 1966), p. 164; Iurii S. Aseev, Dzherela:Mystetstvo Kyivs'koi Rusi (Kiev, 1980), p. 66.13Pavel A. Rappoport, Drevnerusskaia arkhitektura (Moscow, 1970), p. 19.14Istoriia ukrains'koho mystetstva, 1: 166; Aseev, Arkhitektura, pp. 50-51. On these Constantinopolitanchurches, see: Alexander Van Millingen, Byzantine Churches in Constantinople:Their History and Architecture (London, 1912), pp. 196-200, 212-18; J. Ebersolt and A.Thiers, Les eglises de Constantinople (Paris, 1913), pp. 171-82, 139-46; N. I. Brunov,"Arkhitektura Konstantinopolia IX-XII vv.," Vizantiiskii vremennik (Moscow and Leningrad),2 [27] (1949): 169-75, 198-209; Richard Krautheimer, Early Christian and ByzantineArchitecture (Baltimore, 1965), pp. 261-65; Thomas F. Mathews, The ByzantineChurches of Istanbul: A Photographic Survey (Philadelphia, 1976), pp. 59-70, 209-219.