Description of the attraction
The first building on the site of this Assumption Church in Moscow was a small temple consecrated in the name of Mikhail Malein - the founder of the Great Lavra on Mount Athos. Another temple of the Myrrh-Bearing Women was located very close to him. This entire complex was located opposite the Printing House, and in 1626 the wooden temple buildings were burnt down.
Towards the middle of the 17th century, boyar Mikhail Saltykov, a cousin of Tsar Mikhail Romanov, became the owner of the estate located next to the former church of Mikhail Malein. He rebuilt the Church of the Myrrh-Bearing Women, the side-altar of which was consecrated in honor of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos. At the end of the same century, the heirs of Mikhail Saltykov, who died in 1671, financed the construction of the Assumption Church, which replaced the Assumption chapel and became a house for this family.
At the beginning of the 19th century, the temple, together with the estate, passed into the possession of the family of Pyotr Kusovnikov. During the Patriotic War of 1812, the estate was not damaged, since Jean-Baptiste Lesseps, who was appointed as the civil governor of Moscow, lived in it.
In 1842, the estate was bought by Gabriel and Alexei Chizhov, bankers and merchants of the first guild. They rebuilt the entire estate, which from that time began to be called the Chizhevsky courtyard. The courtyard was located at the intersection of Bogoyavlensky Lane and Nikolskaya Street. In the courtyard there were hotels, warehouses, shops, shops. The Assumption Church was inside the courtyard, and it could only be accessed from the side of Nikolskaya Street.
After the 1917 revolution, a hostel of the Revolutionary Military Council was opened in the Chizhevsky compound. The temple was abolished in 1925 and houses the People's Commissariat of the Navy. In the second half of the last century, the building was occupied by the construction and assembly department, and under it was the Ploschad Revolyutsii metro station. At the same time, the building already had the status of an architectural monument. At the end of the twentieth century, the restoration of the former church was carried out twice: in the 70s and in the 90s after the temple was transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church and declared a patriarchal courtyard.
Currently, the temple is assigned to the Church of St. Nicholas at the Preobrazhensky cemetery.
