Vladimir Gates of Kitai-Gorod and the Chapel of St. Panteleimon the Healer.

For every disease, for every affliction, we have the healer Panteleimon (M. Tsvetaeva).

The photographs were taken in 1896 and 1897. The Vladimir Gates, also known as the Sretensky or Nikolsky Gates, were built between 1534 and 1538 and were located between Nikolskaya Street and Lubyanka Square. The Chapel of St. Panteleimon the Healer was erected between 1881 and 1883 according to the design of architect Alexander Kaminsky.

In 1880, I.I. Sushkin, a hereditary honorary citizen, donated a plot of land near the Vladimir Tower to the Russian Athos Panteleimon Monastery. In 1881, construction began on a new chapel dedicated to St. Panteleimon, envisioned by Kaminsky as a vertical dominant in the architecture of Moscow, marking the exit of Nikolskaya to Lubyanka Square.

The consecration of the chapel took place on June 2, 1883, and all relics were immediately transferred there. It was considered one of the richest in relics in Moscow: it housed the miraculous image of the Savior, the icons of the Mother of God "Quick to Hear" and Iveron, the icon of St. Panteleimon the Great Martyr, and a reliquary with holy relics. The chapel was attached to the Epiphany Monastery but belonged to the Athos Panteleimon Monastery.

The feast of St. Panteleimon was an important event for all of Moscow. Every year on July 27 (August 9), a procession would set out from the chapel to the Epiphany Monastery. Nikolskaya Street would fill with pilgrims, and to allow everyone to venerate the miraculous icons, the images were brought out onto the street and placed under a canopy.

In 1923, the chapel was taken from the believers. The minutes of the Moscow City Council meetings published a decision to close the chapel and transfer the premises to the Moscow Police Department, citing a refusal by a group of believers to use it and a circular from the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars dated April 8, 1929. This decision became a preparatory stage for the demolition of the chapel along with the Kitai-Gorod Wall, the Church of the Trinity in the Fields, and the Vladimir Church.

The chapel was closed in 1932, and in 1934 it was demolished along with the fortress wall of Kitai-Gorod. The miraculous image of St. Panteleimon the Great Martyr was transferred to the Resurrection Church in Sokolniki, where it remains to this day. Currently, a shopping center called "Nautilus" is located on this site.