Description of the attraction
The Church of the Resurrection Slovuschee is located in a village called Terebeni, which belongs to the Opochetsky district. The construction of the church was carried out in the second half of the 18th century. Some sources claim that the temple was built by order of the local landowner Karaulov, others - by order of the brigadier Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, who in the future became a famous commander. The temple was built with wood and sheathed with boards.
The Church of the Resurrection of the Word is one of those rare monuments of wooden architecture that have survived to our time on the Pskov land. It is known that in 1895 a parish school was opened at the church. In the basement section of the church there is a crypt, in which there are burials of Lieutenant-General Golenishchev-Kutuzov Illarion Matveyevich and his wife Anna Illarionovna, whose family estate was located very near the village of Terebeni. There is a cemetery near the church, on the territory of which the ancestral crypt of the famous landowners of the Lvovs, as well as the graves of the Karaulovs, who were also reputed to be landowners, and ancient, stone-paved crosses, have been preserved.
The Church of the Resurrection of the Word consists of several main volumes, which are little related to each other. On the west side of the church, a small refectory room adjoins the rectangular quadrangle, and on the south and north sides there are single-apse side-chapels of this type. The church bell tower is multi-tiered, hipped, and is connected to the refectory room through a covered walkway. The bell tower was built in the 19th century.
The church is a pillarless temple, while the transition from the quadruple to the octagon is made without the collapse of the quadrangle. The overlapping of the octagon side-chapels and the main room was carried out with flat and equipped with rafter tents. The refectory room and the passage from the church bell tower are covered with a gable roof on the rafters. The main premises of the church are distinguished by an impressive vertical space, equipped with an elongated refectory. Small openings lead from the refectory, not only in size, but also in configuration.
The building of the Church of the Resurrection stands on a foundation made on a granite stone boulder. The walls of the temple premises are made of a log, the diameter of which is 25-30 cm, cut into the paw. The church is completely sheathed with boards. The upper part of the octagon, namely its central room, is decorated with a decorative belt made of rarely exposed brackets made of wood. Temple walls are covered with paint.
Until now, the church has preserved three wooden iconostases dating back to the 16th century, which are exquisitely and richly decorated with gilded carvings. The temple iconostasis of the main Resurrection Church is distinguished by a special and rather rare art of woodcarving, as well as painting. The interior design of the church is full of famous works of ancient Russian easel painting dating back to the 17th - early 18th centuries. In this case, it is worth noting such icons: Entry into Jerusalem, Descent into Hell, Trinity, Transfiguration, Meeting, as well as Christ the Almighty. A list of icons from the Deesis tier: Paul and Peter, Michael and Gabriel, the Mother of God and John the Baptist, the Prudent Robber and others.
In the Church of the Resurrection, three crosses made of wood have been preserved, one of which bears an inscription stating that the cross was previously in the Church of the Resurrection of Christ, which existed under Ekaterina Alekseevna, as well as under her heir, Prince Pavel Petrovich and his wife Maria Fedorovna. On the second cross it is written that it was consecrated in the Church of the Sign of the Most Holy Theotokos during the reign of Empress Ekaterina Alekseevna, according to the blessing of the Holy Synod; the ritual itself was conducted by the Archbishop of Riga and Pskov Innocent in the fall of November 26, 1778. On the third cross there is an inscription that the consecration of the cross took place in the church of the Great Martyr Barbara under Empress Ekaterina Alekseevna, as well as under her heirs. Consecration took place with the blessing of the Synod of Riga and Pskov Archbishop Innokentiy.
More than 10 medieval stone crosses can be seen in the cemetery.
Reviews
| All reviews 0 Svetlana Ivanova 2017-27-05 17:22:00
temple for the soul This spring, by the providence of God, my husband and I visited the village of Terebeni for a service in the Church of the Resurrection of the Word. The temple amazed us with its space, but at the same time with its comfort. The temple is three-sided, there are so many ancient icons returned to the temple from Russian museums. The abbot of the temple, Father Nikolai …
