Moscow Oblast · Russia · Kolomna
The Church of SS. Martyrs Boris and Gleb "located behind the Kolomenka River" was mentioned in the 16th-century documents among other city churches.
The church remained wooden till the 17th century.
The funds of well-to-do citizens of Zaprudskaya Village K. Zhitnikov and N. Nabokov were used to build a stone church in 1716–1726.
In the lat...
Russia · Moscow
The now-existing SS. Cosmas and Damian Church in Maroseyka Street was built in 1793. However, a church had already existed at the same place before. Thus two churches are distinguished: the old and the new one.
It is not known for sure when and by whom the old SS. Cosmas and Damian Church was built. It is known for certainty though that the chur...
Russia · Moscow
Since the 16th century, a settlement of coachmen was situated at the site of the Church. From 1685 to 1722, a Moscow customs boarder went there: a place where people coming to the town must pay purchase taxes. Carts with goods and foodstuffs stopped in the line ("tsep" in Russian) and stayed there till the tax was paid. There is another opinion, th...
Russia · Suzdal
The Church of SS. Peter and Paul (SS. Peter and Paul's Church) was built in 1694 near the southern wall of Pokrovsky Monastery.
SS. Peter and Paul's Church is one of the most monumental buildings of late Suzdal architecture. The Church was merged with the Pokrovsky Monastery ensemble, which ordered the construction. The Church was merged with th...
Volga River · Russia · Kashin
The Church of SS. Peter and Paul was first mentioned in the Church's cadastre of 1621. It was mentioned as a wooden church in the 1709 chronicle. Originally, the wooden church of SS. Peter and Paul was situated on the bank of the Kashinka River, where it was repeatedly flooded during the spring flood-time. That is why, in 1780 to 1782, the Church w...
Moscow Oblast · Russia · Kolomna
Strangely enough the history of the Church of SS. Peter and Paul is associated with a cholera epidemic raging in Kolomna and other Moscow province towns in 1770. An act was passed by Catherine II in 1771, prohibiting burials near parish churches situated in urban areas. Since then, dead people had to be buried beyond the city gates.
In 1775, the...
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...
Russia · Veliky Novgorod
The Church of SS. Peter and Paul in Kozhevniki was built in 1406. It is a bright example of 15th-century architecture. The Church was built with support from craftsmen-tanners.
It is a limestone church with brick decorative elements. Arches, a dome, and pilaster strips are also brick-built.
The Church is a cube with one dome. Facades are comp...
Russia · Moscow
The Church of SS. Peter and Paul in Novaya Basmannaya Street was built from 1705 to 1728 (1708 to 1723) and replaced a wooden temple constructed at this place (in Kapitanskaya Sloboda inhabited by regiment officers of the new regular army) in 1695.
The Church construction was evidently started by architect Ivan Zarudniy at the direction of Peter...
Russia · Moscow
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 owne...
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