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Church of St. Demetrius on Devichye Pole Russia · Moscow

In 1890, medical clinics at Moscow Imperial University were opened on Devichye Pole in Moscow. The construction was financed by Emperor Alexander III and Moscow merchants. At the clinics a small Byzantine chapel was built where funeral services were performed. Dmitry Storozhev, a Moscow merchant, had his own house in Bolshaya Tzaritzinskaya Stre...

Church of SS. Peter and Paul by the Yauza Gate Russia · Moscow

The Church was built in 1700 (the high altar is dedicated to the Our Lady of the Sign Icon) upon the arduous Ivanovskaya Gorka (Hill) in Kulishki District of Moscow (the right word is "kulizhki" translated as "a clearing in the woods"), near the Yauza River's mouth, by the Yauza Gate. It was constructed at the place of an ancient Church of SS. Pete...

St. Nicholas Naval Cathedral Baltic Sea · Russia · Saint Petersburg

By order of Empress Elizabeth I, on 15 July 1759, a stone church was laid in the marine regimental court, on the bank of the Kryukov Canal. It was constructed for naval men to a design by Savva Chevakinsky, the chief architect of the Admiralty Board. Construction of the temple was finished in 1760, and immediately it became a peculiar ornament to t...