🏛 Mozhaysk Kremlin and the New St Nicholas Cathedral

Можайск, Бородинская ул., 8

The hill of the ancient Mozhaysk kremlin with the neo-Gothic New St Nicholas Cathedral of the early 19th century; the church is active, and part of the ensemble is under restoration.

The cathedral was built in 1802–1814 to a design by the Moscow architect Alexey Bakarev, a pupil of Matvey Kazakov.
The new cathedral was built into the old fortress St Nicholas Gate with a gate church, and stone from the dismantled kremlin was used for construction.
In 1812 the French burned the iconostases of the unfinished cathedral, but the icon of St Nicholas of Mozhaysk, hidden in the cellars, survived.
The cast-iron fence at the slope, visible in Prokudin-Gorsky's 1911 photograph, was torn down in 1932.
The rotunda over the cathedral's centre was destroyed in the fighting of 1941–1942 and has never been rebuilt.
After the restoration of the 1960s a knitwear factory worked in the cathedral, and services returned only in 1994.
On 25 January 1942 a mass grave of Soviet soldiers was made on the western edge of Sobornaya Hill.

Part of these routes

Borodino: the field, the flèches and Mozhaysk