The warm church of St. George the Great Martyr includes three side altars: in the name of All Saints, in honor of the Entry into the Temple of the Most Holy Virgin Mary, and in the name of the Three Hierarchs. The altar of George was consecrated in 1703, and the altar of All Saints in 1817, as confirmed by inscriptions on the antimins. The other two altars were built and consecrated in 1838 by the merchants Kiselev and Posylin.
This temple is a rare example of a small two-story building in the classical style. It has come down to us in poor condition: the completion has been lost, the apse has been raised with a second floor, the portico of the main entrance is closed off by extensions, almost all the stucco that decorated the facades has disappeared, and the internal structure has been distorted by later partitions. The main two-story volume is elongated along the transverse axis. The partially preserved upper floor has the shape of an octagon with narrow diagonal faces, which was previously topped with an octagonal roof with a cupola. The adjoining volumes of the refectory, side altars, and semi-circular apse are equal in height, with only a small vestibule on the second floor at the western wall of the octagon rising above their roofs. From the original facade decoration, four Ionic pilasters of the portico of the southern altar and a six-column portico in front of the western entrance, consisting of paired middle and single outer columns of the Tuscan order, remain, although their intercolumniations are now bricked up.
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