The modest rural church in baroque style features noble proportions and an unusual severity of decor. In the 18th century, the village of Bogorodskoye with its surrounding villages belonged to Prince G.V. Kozlovsky and was given as a dowry to the daughters of Ya.D. Bychkov and D.Yu. Koloshin. In 1771, it was purchased by Colonel Anton Vasilyevich Shipov. At his request and expense, with the participation of parishioners, the existing brick church was built in 1775, coated with lime plaster. The church had two chapels: of John the Baptist and of Elijah the Prophet.
The church is located away from housing on an overgrown cemetery. Its composition is elongated in the longitudinal direction. To the main volume, a type of octagon on a square base, whose gabled roof is topped with a faceted lantern of a lost dome, a narrower rectangular altar with cut corners, equal in height to the square base, adjoins from the east, while from the west, a wider refectory, behind which is a narrowed narthex and a three-tiered bell tower. The rounded corners of the square base, refectory, and narthex, emphasized by pilasters, give special plasticity to the volumes, and the corners of the square bases of the bell tower are decorated in various ways.
All volumes of the church, including the bell tower, are united by a low, almost ground-level plinth and a three-part cornice with frequent dry bricks. The openings of the square base are enclosed in small niches, completed with simple shelves with dry bricks. The main entrance retains a wooden Empire-style canopy on the southern facade with a triangular profiled pediment resting on wooden pilasters. Rectangular windows on the sides are framed with framed casings with ears and three-part locks against the background of reclining niches and rectangular window sills. The same casings with locks frame the windows of the octagon, the edges of which are emphasized by rusticated pilasters. In the refectory and narthex, the windows are placed in high rectangular niches, and their casings are even more modest.
The arched openings of the bell tower in all tiers are decorated with two-pilaster porticoes with a profiled cornice; however, due to various techniques for processing the corners, a great plastic variety of forms is achieved: in the lower tier, the corners are treated with rustication, in the second, they are recessed with a curve, and in the third, they are braced.
In the interior, the octagon, resting on the walls of the square base and three-tiered trompes in its corners, is covered with an eight-vaulted ceiling with a light ring in the center. Three arched passages lead to the altar, completed with a barrel vault with trays extending from the eastern wall. The refectory, with two deep niches for the side altars on either side of the entrance, is covered with a semi-vaulted ceiling, while the narthex has a barrel vault. The lower tier of the bell tower has an eight-vaulted ceiling; in the southeast pilaster, an internal staircase to the bell ringing is arranged.
In the interior, the walls of the church are painted in light pink ochre, against which the white plaster decor, which appeared in the mid-19th century, stands out brightly: pulled casings of openings, frames-quadrifolias for glue paintings on the walls, and panels on the trays decorated with ornaments. A narrow stucco cornice at the base of the vault is complemented by painting. In the side entrances of the square base, door leaves with panels imitating diamond rustication and metal grilles from the mid-19th century have been preserved.
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