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      🏛 Transfiguration Church on Apothecary Island

      Инструментальная ул., 3А

      A church by Konstantin Thon painted by Bryullov, a former grenadiers' regimental church; it reopened after being a LETI laboratory.

      Transfiguration Church on Apothecary Island
      © Витольд Муратов · CC BY-SA 3.0
      • The church was built to a design by Konstantin Thon and consecrated on 16 September 1845.
      • Karl Bryullov painted the Evangelists on the pendentives of the vault in 1845.
      • From 1873 the church was the regimental church of the Life Guards Grenadier Regiment.
      • In 1930 a LETI laboratory was set up here: the domes were taken down and the paintings painted over.
      • The church was handed over to the diocese in 2006.

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      • Apothecary Island: Radio, Stolypin and Thon's Church

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