This church is a unique example of a rural parish church in the style of mature classicism, distinguished by elements of pseudo-Gothic in both architecture and monumental interior painting. Once, the church was located in the center of the village, with the northern facade facing the street and the western one towards a large pond with an island. Currently, the village has completely disappeared, and the area around the church is overgrown with trees and shrubs. According to written sources, the village, known as Kazanskoye, has been mentioned since the first quarter of the 17th century. In 1621, it was granted to the nobleman Ivan Fyodorovich Leontyev for his participation in the siege of Moscow. In 1704, his son Pavel Ivanovich Leontyev sold the village to the deacon Andrey Dmitrievich Afanasyev. The current Church of the Resurrection, with chapels dedicated to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and the Kazan Mother of God, was built on the site of a wooden Kazan church around 1809 with funds from the parishioners. In the mid-19th century, the village belonged to N.G. Chaplygin. In the second half of the 19th century, the church grounds were enclosed by a brick fence with gates on the northern side. The wide arched gate opening, topped with an onion dome, was flanked by two arched wickets. Outside, the opening and wickets were separated by massive pilasters. Currently, the fence has only partially survived, with a fragment of one of the wickets remaining from the gates. The brick walls of the church are covered with plaster, the facades are partially whitewashed and partially painted with ochre.
The external decor of the church has a flat character. The three-axis compositions of the facades of the two-light temple square are strictly symmetrical and divided by shallow rectangular niches: vertical in the first tier and horizontal in the second. In the lower niches are rectangular openings: the entrance in the center and window openings on the sides. The windows have two-tiered sills, and above the entrances, traces of gabled umbrellas are visible. The upper niches are recessed with pointed windows in the center and round medallions on the sides. The walls of the square are topped with a complete entablature with a smooth frieze and a simple cornice with dry biscuits. The octagon is pierced with rectangular windows, except for the eastern side, where there is a niche of a false window. The apse is divided by large but shallow niches, the upper edge of which runs under the cornice, and the narrow piers between them look like pilasters. Three rectangular altar windows are similar to the windows of the first light of the church, and the crowning entablature of the apse resembles that of the square. The symmetrical facades of the refectory are highlighted by a risalit with a three-part window of the serliana type: a central, taller arched opening with a wedge-shaped lock is flanked by narrow rectangular openings, above which are round medallions. On the flanks of the facades is one rectangular window each. The entablature of the refectory is similar to that of the church square. The two lower tiers of the bell tower are pierced with high arched openings, the third with round ones. Above the western entrance is a large semicircular window, bricked up in the 19th century, above which traces of a wide gabled umbrella are visible, and above it, a round window of the second light. The first tier is topped with a low attic with rectangular niches above the cornice. The second and third tiers are completed with simple cornices.
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