🏛 Church of Sts Peter and Paul and the Polier Crypt

Шуваловский парк, 41

A neo-Gothic church by A. Bryullov from the 1830s–40s on a hill above the pond, with the crypt of Count Adolphe Polier beside it.

The church was laid down in summer 1831 but took 10 years to build for lack of money; it was consecrated on 27 June 1846.
The Consistory allowed the church on condition that the crypt of the non-Orthodox count stand outside the church fence.
The most unusual feature is the openwork metal tent spire — medieval Gothic had nothing like it.
On 30 June 1872 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Nadezhda Purgold were married here.
In 1935 the church was closed and turned into a physiotherapy room for a sanatorium; the spire and top of the bell tower were sent for scrap.
In 1991 the church was returned to believers, and restoration gave it back its original look.

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