Dnieper River · Ukraine · Dnepropetrovsk
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Dnieper River · Ukraine · Kiev
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Dnieper River · Ukraine · Kiev
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Russia · Moscow
The Church of St. Nicholas "Red Chime" is located in Kitay-gorod, one of the Moscow oldest historical districts, in Yushkov Drive (later known as Vladimirova Drive, and since 1992 as Nikolsky Lane) connecting Varvarka Street and Ilyinka Street. The church was first mentioned in the 16th-century chronicle.
The name of "Red Chime" was given to the...
Russia · Veliky Novgorod
An original stone church was built from 1383 to 1384 by posadniks (eng.: mayors) Rodislav Danilovich, Ustin, and Philip. In 1526, it was reconstructed.
Two churches were erected at the place in 1527 and 1528. The Church of St. Philip was intended for Novgorod boyar families, and the Church of St. Nicholas — for citizens of neighbouring villages....
Dnieper River · Ukraine · Kiev
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Russia · Moscow
The Church was built under Tsar Fyodor Alekseyevich, in 1679–1682, in the Moscow district of Khamovniki, close to a stone church of St. Nicholas the Wonder-Worker that had existed there before (known since 1657; its wooden predecessor is known since 1625).
The main, unheated part of the Church was consecrated on 25 June 1682. Later the same year...
Russia · Moscow
Kotelniki is an old Moscow district named after a settlement of potmakers (Kotelniki being the Russian word for potmakers). Kotelnicheskaya Embankment and 1st, 4th and 5th Kotelnichesky Lanes were also named after this village.
Documents state that St. Nicholas' Church, in the village of Stariye Kuznetsy, was around as late as 1547. In 1632, it ...
Russia · Moscow
In central Moscow, not far from the Kremlin, in Starovagankovsky Lane, there stands a small, modestly decorated church, the Church of the Holy Hierarch Nicholas the Wonderworker, with the side-chapel in honour of the Venerable Sergius of Radonezh.
The neighbourhood of Vagankovo received its name from the kennel-men and skomorokhs (Russian comic ...