Oksana Prokopyuk (PhD in History 2007, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine) is a Leading Research Fellow, Department of History and Archeology, National Preserve Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra in Kyiv, Ukraine. She publishes widely on Church history, religious studies, social history, religious culture, history of empires of Eastern Europe, and eighteenth-century studies. Within the frame of the POLY Research Group, she examines ‘communication through donations’ in the religious culture of the Kyiv Orthodox Metropolitanate in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.