The Church was built and dedicated to St. Nicholas in 1613. It had side chapels of SS. Peter and Paul and St. Irene the Great Martyr. Consecration was held on 5 May. Tsar Mikhail Romanov attended the consecration ceremony.
In the late 17th century, the Church of the Resurrection was controlled by a military hospital and situated in a garden owned by Franz Lefort, the first colonel of the 1st Moscow Regiment, who had an idea to rebuilt and extend it for his regiment and connect to the name of Peter the Great. In 1696, the Colonel Franz Lefort reconstructed the Church at his own expense.
The Church was completely rebuilt in 1711 with support from Peter the Great and consecrated on 1 June in the name SS. Peter and Paul. An inscription on the Church's cross evidences this. An original brick polychrome platband on the southern portal survived.
The high altar is a northern one and dedicated to SS. Peter and Paul the Apostles. It has side chapels of St. John the Evangelist and the Venerable Sergius of Radonezh and a belltower. In 1904, the Church was damaged by hurricane.
The Church is a rectangular with five domes, a lopsided refectory, and a tented-roof belltower. The 18th-century interior, a Baroque wooden gilded icon stand and Empire icon stands of the side chapels survived. The Church has never been shut down. The bells remained intact.
The Church's sacred objects include the wonder-working Pochaevskaya Icon of the Theotokos (moved to the Church in the 1930s), the icon of Mother of God "Indestructible Wall", the icon of St. Panteleon (brought from Mount Athos), and relics of St. Michael of Tver.
The Lutheran Parish in Tsarskoye Selo is considered to be founded in 1811. However it was allowed to start construction works in 1817 only. The construction was initiated by Lyceum principle Yegor Engelhardt and Lyceum pastor Christian Gnichtel. Emperor Alexander I gave them his imperial consent and granted 20,000 roubles for this purpose. In 1817,...
In the mid-1900s, Tsarskoye Selo became the main imperial residence. At the same time, it was suggested to build a regimental church for the Imperial Escort Guard and Mounted Regiment.
In the late 1908, it was decided to start construction. Emperor Nicholas I pointed the place where to build the church himself. It was a wide glade near the north...
Constructed in 1905, the Cathedral of Saint Pre-Eminent Apostles Peter and Paul is Peterhof's most significant church that has survived. Created to a design by the architect Nikolay Sultanov, this church can be seen from a long distance, beyond the city limits. A perfect view of the Cathedral is provided both from the Gulf of Finland and from the s...
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