M clearing Church of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary. Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in the Cossack settlement. Photo and description
Moscow, Bolshaya Polyanka street, 37с3
metro station "Polyanka"
Altars: Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Year of construction: Between 1695 and 1697.
Apartment house with shops
at the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in Cossack Sloboda
Moscow, Bolshaya Polyanka street, 37с1
metro Polyanka
Year of construction: Between 1863-1864.
Monument of history and culture.
Protected by the state. 
The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Cossack Sloboda was built in 1695-1697. steward V.F. Poltev. In the 16th century on this site there was a wooden temple of Florus and Laurus in Kolomenskaya Yamskaya Sloboda. After 1591, the settlement was transferred to Zatsepa, and the place was not inhabited for a long time.
The temple on this site dates back to the 17th century. first mentioned in 1642. 20 years later the temple was restored as the Assumption Church in the Cossack Settlement. In 1768, G. Nesterov built a chapel of the Sedmiezersk Icon of the Mother of God. In 1797-1798 At the expense of a parishioner, the widow of a major general, P.I. Pozdnyakova, a refectory was built with the Sedmiezersk chapel (left) and the icon of the Mother of God “Quench my sorrows.”
The volume of the refectory is decorated with pediments from the south and north. The single-domed temple of the octagon-on-quadrangle type with a three-part apse is decorated in the Moscow Baroque style. The corners are processed with semi-columns, the windows are completed with broken pediments. From the west, in addition to the refectory, the temple is adjoined by a vestibule and a small 2-tier bell tower, built in 1795-1797. financed by P.I. Pozdnyakova. The bell tower ended with a spire. Its lower tiers are decorated with two-column porticoes. In the upper tier of the Tuscan order there are pilasters.
In a fire in 1812, the temple burned out from the inside. It was restored in 1818 through the efforts of the merchant N. Karpyshev. In 1869-1872 The temple was renovated at the expense of parishioners and church warden D. P. Rogatkin. During this period, the classicist appearance of the refectory and bell tower was somewhat distorted by small plaster details, gravitating towards the forms of the “Russian style”. The fence of the late 18th century has been partially preserved.
The church was closed in 1930 and beheaded. Before this, gold and silver church decorations and utensils were confiscated from the temple. The top of the bell tower and the clergy house were destroyed. The temple housed a printing house and an archive. In the 1970-1980s. was restored.
Divine services resumed in 1994.
The current main church of the octagon-on-quadrangle type was built in 1695 in the Moscow Baroque style. The current refectory and bell tower were built in place of the old ones in 1795-97. The chapels in the refectory of the Soothing of my sorrows and the Mother of God of Seven Lakes. Closed probably mid. 1920s Terminations are broken. The temple has been restored.
The Church of the Assumption of the Mother of God in the Cossack Sloboda was first mentioned in ancient Moscow chronicles in 1642 as “The Wooden Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the martyrs Florus and Laurus (patrons of coachmen), in the old Kolomenskaya Yamskaya Sloboda.” After 1651, the settlement was transferred to Zatsepa, but the place was not inhabited for a long time, and in 1657 it was listed under the name “Wooden Church of the Most Pure Mother of God of the Assumption, in the Cossack settlement beyond the Moscow River.” At that time, the temple still “stood without singing,” that is, there were no services in it.
In 1662, the temple was restored as the Assumption Church in the Cossack Sloboda and in the chronicles in 1694 it is already listed as “The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in the Cossack Sloboda on Vspolye.” In 1695-1697, at the expense of the steward V.F. Poltev, in the settlement of Cossacks, immigrants from the southern outskirts of Russia, the existing church building with the main altar of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary was built.
The one-domed church belongs to the “octagon on quadrangle” type. The facades are decorated with the usual decor of that time - half-columns, cornices, platbands with torn pediments. In 1768, G. Nesterov built a chapel of the Simezersk Icon of the Mother of God. And in 1797-1798, at the expense of a parishioner, the widow of a major general, P.I. Pozdnyakova, a refectory was built with a chapel of Sedmiezersk (left) and the icon of the Mother of God “Quench My Sorrows” ( right), as well as a new bell tower. The volume of the refectory is decorated with pediments from the south and north. The bell tower ended with a spire. Small in size, the bell tower looks slender thanks to decorative two-column porticoes on three sides of the lower tier.
The altar Gospel of 1696 and the temple icon of the Dormition of the Mother of God of 1696 were kept in the temple. In 1812 the temple burned down from the inside. All the interior decoration and property of the temple burned down. In 1818, church warden Nikita Karpyshev restored the temple (before his burnt house). In 1869-1872, the temple was redecorated at the expense of parishioners and the new headman, merchant P. Rogatkin and his son, who donated large sums to the church. Over the course of three centuries, the temple has seen more than one generation of clergy and temple clergy.
In the archives that have survived and survived to this day, the names of only a few priests have been preserved: Father John -1653, Father Kozma - 1670, Father Eutropius -1675, Father Joachim (Kuzmin) - 1681, Father Vasily (Mikhailov ) - 1687, Father Mikhail (Konstantinov) - 1718, Father Andrey (Fedorov) - 1722-1737, Father Fedor (Vasiliev) - 1771-1786, Father Mikhail (Nikitin) - 1796-1799. , Father Nikolay (Vasiliev) - 1800-1804, Father Sergius (Bulatov) - 1900-1911, Father Andrey (Voskresensky) - 1912-1930. At the Jubilee Council of Bishops in August 2000. Among the 129 newly glorified saints killed for their faith at the Butovo training ground was Archpriest Andrei Voskresensky. At the same time, by the decision of the Holy Synod, the annual church veneration of the martyr Andrei was established - this is the day of his martyrdom - October 31, n.s. The last rector of the temple, Andrei Vladimirovich Voskresensky, with the support of the elder D.M. Rogatkin-Ezhikov, prepared a publication on the history of the church and the life of the Cossacks based on materials from church archives.
In 1922 the temple was closed. The authorities seized over 11 pounds of gold and silver church decorations and utensils. The top of the bell tower and the heads of the temple were destroyed, and the clergy house was broken. The archive and materials prepared by Father Andrei for publication were lost.
In 1983, when the temple was restored, it housed the printing house and archive of the All-Union Correspondence Institute of Finance and Economics. At the end of 1990, city authorities decided to return the temple to the Russian Orthodox Church. In 1994 Divine services were resumed, Sunday schools for children and adults and a library began operating.
Photo: Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Cossack Sloboda
Photo and description
Until the end of the 16th century, this Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and the Church of Florus and Lavra on Zatsepa had a common history. The first church on the site where the Assumption Church now stands stood in the center of the Yamskaya settlement on Polyanka. It was made of wood and was named in honor of Florus and Laurus, patrons of the coachman's craft. At the end of the century, this settlement was moved to Zatsepa - to the Zamoskvorechye region, which was located behind a chain - a customs barrier, in front of which loaded carts were checked for the presence of goods illegally imported into the capital. On Zatsepa, a new church was built in honor of Florus and Laurus, and in the former settlement, which became Cossack, the temple began to be called Uspensky, and this name was assigned to it around the 60s of the 17th century. Moreover, for several years before this, the church most likely stood abandoned, and the area itself was not populated.
The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary was rebuilt in stone in the last years of the 17th century, and in the next century it was rebuilt several times - it acquired new chapels, a bell tower in the classical style, and a refectory. The current appearance of the temple was formed by the end of the 18th century, although some changes were made to it after the fire of 1812, when the entire interior of the temple burned out. The restoration of its former splendor was carried out at the expense of parishioners and was completed only in the 70s of the 19th century.
In the 20s, in relation to this temple, the new government carried out all the same actions as in relation to many other religious buildings: confiscation of valuables in favor of the hungry, demolition of domes, the upper tier of the bell tower and individual buildings, closure. The church building housed a printing house and archive. In the 70-80s, the church was restored, so it was possible to preserve the appearance of the building, in which you can see both the features of Moscow Baroque and Classicism.
The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Cossack Settlement is an Orthodox church of the Moskvoretsky deanery of the Moscow city diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. Located at Bolshaya Polyanka Street, building 37.
In the 16th century, on the site of the current church, stood the wooden Church of Flora and Lavra, which was the center of the Kolomenskaya Yamskaya Sloboda. At the end of the 16th century, the Yamskaya settlement was transferred to Zatsepa, where a new church of the same name was built. In the Moscow chronicles of 1642 there is a mention of the church of the “Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the martyrs Florus and Laurus, in the old Kolomenskaya Yamskaya Sloboda.” In 1657, the same church was mentioned under a different name - “Church of the Most Pure Mother of God of the Assumption, in the Cossack Settlement beyond the Moscow River.” Apparently, at this time the church was not functioning, since it “stands without singing.” The church was restored in 1662 as the Assumption Church in Cossack Sloboda.
The single-domed stone church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Cossack Sloboda was built in 1695-1697. at the expense of the steward V.F. Poltev. In 1723 the church was “renovated”. In 1768, through the efforts of G. Nesterov, a chapel of the Simezersk Icon of the Mother of God appeared at the church; in 1797-1798, the church acquired its modern appearance: a refectory with two chapels (Sedmiezersk and the icon of the Mother of God “Quench My Sorrows”) and a new bell tower, made in the style classicism. This construction was carried out at the expense of the widow of Major General P.I. Pozdnyakova.
During the fire of 1812, the entire interior of the temple burned out, but already in 1818 the temple was restored by church warden Nikita Karpyshev. In 1869-1872, at the expense of parishioners and church warden D.P. Rogatkin, the temple was decorated, during which the classicist appearance of the refectory and bell tower was somewhat distorted.
In 1922, the church was closed and it housed an archive and a printing house. Church decorations and utensils were confiscated from the temple. The dome of the temple was demolished, the top of the bell tower and the clergy house were destroyed.
In 1970-1980, the temple was restored. At the end of 1990, the church was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church and services were resumed in 1994.
Architecture
The single-domed temple of the late 17th century, of the eight-on-four type, is made in the Moscow Baroque style. A three-part apse adjoins the church from the east; the façade is decorated with the usual decoration for that time in the form of semi-columns, simple profiled cornices and platbands with semi-columns, completed with curved broken pediments. The decor was restored during the restoration of the church.
The refectory and bell tower are made in the style of classicism. On the southern and northern sides, the refectory is decorated with pediments; its volume with side chapels looks somewhat massive in relation to the church building.
On the western side, the refectory is adjacent to a vestibule and a small two-tier bell tower. Its lower tier is decorated with two-column porticoes, and the upper tier uses pilasters of the Tuscan order. The bell tower ends with a spire, restored in the post-Soviet period.
The interior of the church is distorted by later partitions and ceilings. A fence from the late 18th century has been preserved in fragments around the temple.
At the intersection of Bolshaya Polyanka and 1st Kazachy Lane, an elegant Assumption Church in Cossack Sloboda. The current building of this building was built in 1695-1697 through the efforts of the steward V. Poltev.
The refectory and bell tower were erected a century later, which immediately catches the eye: if the body of the church itself, the single-domed “octagon on a quadrangle,” is traditional Moscow Baroque, then the extensions with their porticoes and pediments, strict geometric decor, and the bell tower spire are already quite mature classicism.
There is one interesting and instructive story connected with the church. During the fire of Moscow in 1812, it was badly damaged and all its interior decoration was destroyed. The nearby house of the church warden, merchant Nikita Karpyshev, also burned down. After the French left the city, the merchant, instead of immediately starting to build a new home for himself, first of all preoccupied himself with the restoration of the temple.
Descendants did not appreciate the spiritual feat of the church elder. In 1930, the church was closed and looted, the dome and top of the bell tower were removed. However, the building, which housed either an archive or a printing house, was somehow restored back in Soviet times. Although the temple regained its former, pre-revolutionary appearance only in 1994, when it was returned to believers.
