Description of the attraction
The Church of the Holy Martyrs Clement Pope and Patriarch Peter I of Alexandria is located on the Olginskaya embankment in the city of Pskov. The most common name for the church is the Church of Clement and Peter.
The temple was formerly a monastery church. In what period of time and by whom exactly the church was founded is unknown. In the ruffle and scribal books of 1585-1857, he was most often referred to as the "Klimentovsky monastery from the city of Pskov from Zavelichye". A 1615 entry mentions that the church was ravaged by Swedish troops, but was soon rebuilt again.
At the beginning of the 18th century, the monastery was closed again, and the church was assigned to the bishop's house. The very first brief description of the temple dates back to 1763, when the Church of Clement and Peter was assigned to the bishop's house. At this time, the church was described as stone and covered with boards, and the head was covered with scales. The bell tower, made of stone, hung four small brass bells. The temple had a three-tiered iconostasis. From the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century, the clerical statements tell about the temple rather briefly. In 1786, the famous church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker of the previously existing Kozhin monastery was assigned to the Church of Clement and Peter. In the records of 1789, a chapel is mentioned in honor of the Exaltation of the Cross of the Lord.
By the beginning of the 19th century, the temple was very dilapidated, numerous and deep cracks appeared in the vaults and walls, and the service completely ceased, while not having a parish. According to the records of 1837, the temple is listed as two-altar, strong, although it does not have a bell tower; at the entrance to the churches, bells were hung between two stone pillars. Apparently, in the 19th century, the porch and porch were radically altered, the gallery located on the north side was dismantled, and the multi-pitched roof, now converted into a four-pitched roof, was dismantled. Restoration work was not carried out at that time. At the beginning of the 20th century, it was planned to carry out a thorough overhaul of the church, which is why in 1912 the monument was measured by the engineer-architect from Pskov Podchekarev, and in 1913 - by V. Birkenberg.
The Church of Clement and Peter stands on a steep river bank and is a dome-cross, four-pillar and three-apse temple dating back to the heyday of the architectural school of the city of Pskov. The main cubic volume of the temple is located on an elevated unusual plinth with a semi-cylindrical apse, which on the east side is crowned with a cylindrical drum with an old hemispherical cupola, and above it there is a small spherical cupola with a four-pointed cross dating back to the 17th century. From the western part, a later made porch and a narthex adjoin it, and on the south side - a temple with a decorative drum and a small faceted cupola. The traditional three-part division in the form of blades has quadrangle facades, and the upper parts of the facades are cut off with a four-pitched roof, which indicates that in ancient times the roof was multi-pitched. The quadruple drum has four modest slit windows located on all cardinal points. It is decorated with a decorative belt, which consists of a pair of rows of runners and curbs, as well as a crowning row of semicircular stepped niches. The upper apses are decorated in the same way as the drum - with a belt with a geometric ornament. In the subchurch, you can go through the basement of the vestibule, which has a flat ceiling. Unfortunately, the interior of the church has not survived to this day.
After the 1917 revolution, the church was closed, after which it was returned to believers only in the fall of 1995. Now the temple is the patron saint of civil and military sailors.
