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      Peski: a resurrected church and Feodorovsky Cathedral

      ⏱ 1 h 30 min🚶 2.8 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      The quiet Sovetskie streets beyond Suvorovsky: a church rebuilt on its old foundations, a garden on the site of a civil execution, a tent-roofed Georgian church and a cathedral that is a monument to the Romanovs.

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        🏛 Church of the Nativity of Christ in Peski
        Рождественский сквер, Красноборский пер.
        Pyotr Yegorov's classicist church, demolished in 1934 and rebuilt on its old foundations by 2020.
        From Ploshchad Vosstaniya along Suvorovsky to 6th Sovetskaya and right — 15 minutes. Walk around the church through the park — it stands on an 18th-century foundation.
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        Church of the Nativity of Christ in Peski
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        Church of the Nativity of Christ in Peski
        © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The first wooden church in Peski appeared in 1753.
        • The stone church was built in 1781–1787 to a design by Pyotr Yegorov.
        • Ten Rozhdestvenskaya streets — now the Sovetskie streets — and the entire Rozhdestvenskaya district were named after the church.
        • The church was demolished in 1934 and recreated on its historic foundations in 2017–2020.
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        🌳 Ovsyannikovsky Garden
        между пр. Бакунина, 3-й Советской, Мытнинской и Старорусской ул.
        A quiet garden in Peski on the site of the former Horse Square; it marks the place of Chernyshevsky's mock execution.
        Along Mytninskaya to the garden. The memorial marker on the site of Chernyshevsky's civil execution is in the northern part of the garden.
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        Ovsyannikovsky Garden
        © Книжная пыль · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Ovsyannikovsky Garden
        © Книжная пыль · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Ovsyannikovsky Garden
        © Книжная пыль · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • On 19 May 1864 the civil execution of Nikolai Chernyshevsky took place here, then on Horse Square.
        • The square was laid out in 1864–1866 with money from the merchant Stepan Ovsyannikov — his house faced the garden.
        • The garden covers 1.8 hectares and is heptagonal in shape.
        • Its other name is Chernyshevsky Garden.
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        ☕️ Teplo coffee shop on Mytninskaya
        Мытнинская ул., 8
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        A coffee shop on the corner of the garden, Mytninskaya 8: coffee and sweets if you want a rest.
        🍴 A small coffee shop at the corner of Ovsyannikovsky Garden: coffee and something sweet to warm up in the middle of a walk around Peski.
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        🏛 Church of the Shestokovo Icon of the Mother of God
        Старорусская ул., 10
        A tented-roof church in the style of 17th-century Moscow, the former town residence of a Tver monastery; services are now held in Georgian too.
        Across Starorusskaya — a tent-roofed church at No. 10. The tent and the domes are best seen from the other side of the street.
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        Church of the Shestokovo Icon of the Mother of God
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        • The church was built in 1897–1900 to a design by the diocesan architect Nikolai Nikonov.
        • John of Kronstadt blessed the foundation stone in 1896; he also served at the consecration of the main altar in 1900.
        • It was the metochion of the Shestokovo Ascension Convent of the Tver diocese.
        • Services are held in Georgian and Church Slavonic.
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        🏛 Feodorovsky Cathedral
        Миргородская ул., 1В
        A church-monument to the 300th anniversary of the Romanovs in the spirit of 17th-century Rostov cathedrals; in Soviet times it was a dairy plant.
        Along Novgorodskaya and Poltavskaya — 12 minutes. Above the entrance is a restored mosaic of the Savior; look into the lower church too, if it's open.
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        Feodorovsky Cathedral
        © Александровы АГ · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Feodorovsky Cathedral
        © GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Feodorovsky Cathedral
        © Vitold Muratov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The cathedral was built to a design by Stepan Krichinsky for the 300th anniversary of the House of Romanov; Nicholas II donated 25,000 rubles to it.
        • Nicholas II and his daughters attended the consecration of the lower church in 1913.
        • The building is reinforced concrete, though it looks like an Old Russian cathedral.
        • After the church was closed, it was given to a dairy plant and its domes were taken down.
        • The restoration was completed in 2013 — for the cathedral's 100th anniversary and the 400th anniversary of the House of Romanov.

      ↩️ Getting back: To Ploshchad Vosstaniya — 10 minutes along Poltavskaya and Goncharnaya; to Ploshchad Aleksandra Nevskogo — 15 minutes along Mirgorodskaya and Khersonskaya.

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