After Catherine II's decree prohibiting burials within the city limits, the Tula authorities allocated a site in the south of Tula for a new cemetery. Initially, the cemetery church was wooden. In March 1773, at the request of the residents, a charter was issued for the construction of a stone church in the name of the Second Coming of Christ, with chapels for the Resurrection of Lazarus and All Saints. Merchant Gerasim Stefanovich Sushkin began the construction but died in 1774 and was buried in the altar part of the church. His son-in-law, merchant Ivan Afanasyevich Gerasimov, continued the work, and in 1776 the church was completed and consecrated. The icons for it were created by Tula icon painter Grigory Ivanovich Belousov. In 1788, the executors of merchant Nikifor Trofimovich Devyatkin received permission to build the 'upper church' with the funds bequeathed to them. The second floor was built in two years, but on August 8, 1790, after the liturgy, one of the domes collapsed, damaging the vaults of both churches and claiming the lives of three people. Provincial architect Nikifor Sokolnikov prohibited services in the lower church, which resumed only five years later. The completion of the upper church occurred in 1797, and its consecration took place in 1825. There is an opinion that the design of the new five-domed structure was developed by architect Kozma Sokolnikov. In 1863, the altar in the upper church was consecrated in the name of the Resurrection of Christ. For forty years, the church managed a chapel in Bread Square, which was located where the current Central Market is. The chapel was stone, with five domes and gilded crosses. All Saints referred to part of the modern L. Tolstoy Street. From 1923 to 1944, the church belonged to the Renovationist Tula Diocese. After the closure of the Assumption Cathedral in 1930, it became the cathedral of the Renovationists. The last Renovationist archbishop, Peter Turbin, joined the Moscow Patriarchate in 1944. Soon the church became the cathedral of the Tula and Belev Diocese. In 1944, Vitaly Vvedensky became the archbishop. In 1955 and 1960, the walls of the church were painted by Moscow artists Pavel Gladkov and Viktor Golubev. In 1960, the cathedral and bell tower were recognized as monuments of history and culture. In 1978, the reconstruction of the bell tower began, completed in December of the same year. In 1979, an elevator was installed and interior work was finished. The representative hall was painted by artist Boris Mukhin. The works were supervised by archpriest Lev Makhno. In 1988, the cathedral became the center for the celebration of the 1000th anniversary of the baptism of Rus. In December 2003, the bell tower's illumination was turned on for the first time.