Church of Guriy, Samon, and Aviva in Karacharovo
The Church of Guriy, Samon, and Aviva, located at the Karacharovo rural cemetery, was built in 1845 thanks to the townsman Guriy Sintsov. The church is designed in the style of ancient Russian architecture and is charact…
Transfiguration Cathedral of the Vorotynsky Monastery
The Transfiguration Cathedral of the Spaso-Vorotynsky Monastery was built in the mid-16th century. The main church of the monastery is distinguished by its simplicity and at the same time monumentality. It is an example …
Church of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Spaso-Preobrazhensky Vortynsky Monastery
The Vvedensky Church, built in 1607, was renovated and re-consecrated exactly one hundred years after its construction. The church preserved its unique tents, which represent a rare iconographic type in Russian architect…
Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ in Kaluga's St. Lawrence Monastery
The temple complex included a two-story single-domed church with a four-pitched roof. On the first floor was the church dedicated to the holy martyr and Archdeacon Lawrence, while the second floor had two altars: the Asc…
Corner of Three Emperors
Corner of Three Emperors
This was a former border point at the confluence of the Black and White Pszemsha rivers, located near the town of Myslowice in modern Silesian Voivodeship, Poland.
From 1871 to 1918, it served …
Tula Kremlin
In 1503, Grand Duke Ivan Vasilyevich took control of a third of the Ryazan cities, including Tula. From this moment, Tula became forever part of the Moscow principality. To protect the route to Moscow from the threat of …
Assumption Cathedral in Tula Kremlin
In 1626, a wooden cathedral known as the Archangel Cathedral was built in the Kremlin. Later, in the 1670s and 1680s, the first stone Assumption Cathedral was erected in its place, with chapels dedicated to Archangel Gab…
Belfry of the Assumption Cathedral in Tula Kremlin
The four-tiered belfry of the Assumption Cathedral was built from 1772 to 1776 under the guidance of the city mayor Illarion Luginin. The construction was overseen by merchants Sofron Sidnev and Ivan Guryiev, and it was …
The Church of Tikhon of Amathus in the Lower Tier of the Bell Tower of the Assumption Cathedral in Tula Kremlin
In 1778, on the lower tier of the bell tower, a warm church was established in honor of Tikhon of Amathus, thanks to the efforts and funds of Tula merchants. This was done in memory of an altar with the same name that ex…
Epiphany Cathedral in Tula Kremlin
The cathedral was built in three years and by October 1858 already had a white iron covering and a gilded dome. The interior walls were plastered, the windows equipped with double frames with Bemski glass, and three stov…
