Church of Our Lady of Vladimir

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CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF VLADIMIR, located at 20 Vladimirsky Avenue. An architectural monument in a transition style merging Baroque with Classicism. The church was constructed on a trade square in 1761-69, presumably to the project of architect P. A. Trezzini, replacing the wooden church of the same name (1747). The five-dome church includes the Upper Church of Our Lady of Vladimir, which is unheated, and the Lower, heated, Church of St. John of Damascus. In 1791, architect G. Quarenghi completed the construction of a separately standing double-tiered bell tower. In 1830-31, a vestibule (architect A. I. Melnikov) was constructed, in 1850-53 - a chapel and fence was added (architect F. I. Rusca), in 1883-85 side annexes (architect A. L. Golm) were also constructed. The church treasures the 18th century Baroque iconostasis that in 1808 was brought from the church of the Anichkov Palace. In 1887-88, the church was restored. It was here that some of the celebrations in honour of nine-hundredth anniversary of the Christening of the Rus took place. From 1865, the charitable society of Church of Our Lady of Vladimir functioned here as did an orphanage and a women’s alms-house. In 1828 the burial service over Arina Rodionovna (nanny of Alexander Pushkin) took place here. In the last years of his life Fedor Dostoevsky was a parishioner of the church. In 1932, the Church of Our Lady of Vladimir was closed down and the building was taken over by the Lenmashuchet Factory. In 1989, the church was returned to the faithful and restored. Since May 2000, it has had the status of a cathedral. The names of Vladimirsky Avenue and Vladimirskaya Square originate from the Church of Our Lady of Vladimir (Vladimirskaya Church).

References: Вирославский Н. М. Описание церкви во имя Божией Матери Владимирской иконы (что в придворных слободах). СПб., 1876; Антонов В. В., Кобак А. В. Святыни Санкт-Петербурга: Ист.-церков. энцикл. СПб., 1994. Т. 1. С. 148-151.

V. V. Antonov. Arina Rodionovna (see Yakovleva A.R.)
Dostoevsky Fedor Mikhailovich
Holm Alexander Lvovich
Melnikov Avraam Ivanovich
Pushkin Alexander Sergeevich
Quarenghi Giacomo
Rusca (Rusco) Franz Ivanovich
Trezzini Pietro Antonio
Yakovleva Arina Rodionovna
Vladimirsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 20
Вирославский Н. М. Описание церкви во имя Божией Матери Владимирской иконы (что в придворных слободах). СПб., 1876
Антонов В. В., Кобак А. В. Святыни Санкт-Петербурга: Ист.-церков. энцикл. СПб., 1994 Baroque
Neoclassicism
Anichkov Palace
1760