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Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra


Categories / Architecture/Architectural Monuments/Religious Architecture (see also Religion.Church)
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HOLY TRINITY CATHEDRAL of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, located at 1 Monastyrka River Embankment, is an architectural monument of the late Classicism style. Its location in the centre of the Lavra ensemble, between Dukhovsky and Feodorovsky buildings was planned in the original designs by D. Trezzini. The first stone church was constructed in 1722-30 (architect T. Schwertfeger), but in 1753-55 it was demolished without being consecrated. In 1778-90 a magnificent church with a single altar was built. It featured a large cupola, a Tuscan portico and two bell towers (architect I. E. Starov). The loggia of the portico is adorned with bas-reliefs by sculptor F. I. Shubin. Artists J. Mettenleiter, I. A. Akimov (icons) and F. D. Danilov (interior painting), modeler F. Lamoni, marbler L. Pinchetti and bronze master P. Azhi participated in the decoration of the church. The portrait of Empress Catherine II by D. G. Levitsky was set above the space reserved for the tsar. From 1770, the right side-altar contained the relics of St. Alexander Nevsky (returned in 1989) kept in a silver shrine, created in 1750-53 according to the sketch by G. C. Grot at the Mint (today it is on display in the State Hermitage). On St. Alexander Nevsky's holiday (30 August, old style) cavaliers of the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky gathered in the cathedral. In 1862, the malachite ciborium for the Shroud of Christ, made by P. P. Thomire in Paris (today on display in the State Hermitage), was arranged in the Holy Trinity Cathedral. In 1933, the Holy Trinity Cathedral was closed, and in 1953 returned to the eparchy and restored (architect K. D. Khalturin). In 1957, the cathedral was consecrated anew and since then functioned as a parish church. In 1996, it once again became the monastery cathedral.

References: Тихон (Покровский П. Ф.). К столетию Свято-Троицкого собора Александро-Невской лавры: Ист. сведения о построении собора и его состояние в настоящем виде. СПб., 1890; Антонов В. В., Кобак А. В. Святыни Санкт-Петербурга: Ист.-церков. энцикл. СПб., 1994. Т. 1. С. 34-37.

V. V. Antonov.

Persons
Akimov Ivan Akimovich
Alexander Nevsky, Duke
Azhi Peter Petrovich (Engis Pierre Louis)
Catherine II, Empress
Danilov Fedor Danilovich
Grot Georg Christofor
Khalturin Kirill Dmitrievich
Lamoni Felice
Levitsky Dmitry Grigorievich
Mettenleiter Jacob
Pinchetti L.
Schwertfeger Theodor
Shubin Fedot Ivanovich
Starov Ivan Egorovich
Thomire Pierre-Philippe
Trezzini Domenico

Addresses
Monastyrka River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 1

Bibliographies
Тихон (Покровский П. Ф.) К столетию Свято-Троицкого собора Александро-Невской лавры: Ист. сведения о построении собора и его состояние в настоящем виде. СПб., 1890
Антонов В. В., Кобак А. В. Святыни Санкт-Петербурга: Ист.-церков. энцикл. СПб., 1994

The subject Index
Alexander Nevsky Lavra
St. Petersburg Mint
St. Petersburg Mint
Hermitage
Hermitage
St. Petersburg Eparchy

Chronograph
1790


Alexander Nevsky Lavra

ALEXANDER NEVSKY LAVRA, located at 1 Alexander Nevsky Square. The monastery dedicated to the Holy Trinity and St. Alexander Nevsky. It was founded in 1710 by Tsar Peter the Great at the confluence of the Chernaya River (today the Monastyrka River)

Gavriil (Petrov) (1730-1801), Metropolitan of Nivgorod and St. Petersburg 1770-99

GAVRIIL (lay name Petr Petrovich Petrov-Shaposhnikov) (1730-1801), Church figure, honorary member (1776) and full member (1783) of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. He graduated from the Slavonic-Greek-Latin Academy in Moscow (1754)

Grigory (Chukov) (1870-1955), Metropolitan

GRIGORY (born Nikolay Kirillovich Chukov) (1870-1955), religious figure. After graduating from St. Petersburg Theological Academy in 1895, he took the post of the eparchial superintendent for theological schools of Olonets Eparchy

Shubin F. I. (1740-1805), sculptor

SHUBIN (Shubnoy till 1761) Fedot Ivanovich (1740-1805, St. Petersburg), a sculptor. He lived in St. Petersburg from 1759. He was a student in the Academy of Arts in 1761-67, a retainer thereof in Paris in 1767-70 and Rome in 1770-72

Starov I.E. (1744-1808), architect

STAROV Ivan Egorovich (1745-1808, St. Petersburg), architect, city-planner, one of the founders of Russian Neoclassicism. Resided in St. Petersburg from 1758. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts (1762). Apprenticed with architect C

Trezzini Pietro Antonio (1692-1760s), architect

TREZZINI Pietro Antonio (1692-1760s), architect, representative of the Baroque style. A native of Italian Switzerland, studied in Milan. From 1726 lived in St. Petersburg, initially worked independently