🏛 Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God in Vladykino

Алтуфьевское ш., 4, стр. 1

The church of the former village of Vladykino, known since the 17th century; according to tradition, Peter I visited here in 1690.

The first Nativity of the Mother of God church was built here around 1627 under Prince Ivan Shuisky, when the village was still called Velyaminovo.
The village got the name Vladykino in 1653, becoming the estate of the patriarch — the "vladyka".
The present five-domed church is a 1854–1858 rebuilding by the architect A. F. Yaroshevsky; it was consecrated in 1860 by Metropolitan Philaret.
The bell tower of the first stone church of 1770 was built by Count Kirill Razumovsky, owner of neighboring Petrovskoye.
In the 1970s the church was due to be demolished for an overpass at the start of Altufyevskoye Highway, but parishioners defended it.
The church's oldest icon is an image of St Nicholas the Wonderworker with 16 scenes of his life, from the late 16th — early 17th century.
The parents and sisters of the actress Maria Yermolova, whose family spent summers at a dacha here from 1869, are buried in the cemetery by the church.