Description of the attraction
The Church of the Resurrection of Christ is a new church built in the former estate of the great-grandfather A. S. Pushkin, A. P. Hannibal in Suida. This church was founded in 1992.
The first Church of the Resurrection of Christ was built by the local landowner Count Apraksin in 1718. The Resurrection Church was located in an old churchyard, half a verst from the manor house. There is a version that the church was a kind of monument to Russian soldiers who fell in battles during the Northern War, in which Apraksin himself participated. It is known that one of the largest military battles took place in the Suida area. Perhaps there were graves of Russian soldiers near the church. According to legend, Peter the Great himself visited this church, who was a guest at the Apraksin estate.
In 1759, the Suydinskaya manor was acquired from the descendants of Apraksin by Abram Petrovich Hannibal. The new owner took care of the local church in Suida, where he was a zealous parishioner. At one time he donated many spiritual books to the temple. It was in this church on September 28, 1796 Nadezhda Osipovna Hannibal, granddaughter of A. P. Hannibal, married Sergei Lvovich Pushkin.
In 1845, N. S. Malinovsky, the head of the Suyda estate with parishioners and the clergy asked the authorities for permission to build a new stone church at his own expense. Construction supervision was entrusted to Avtony Stepanov, the architect of the Orphan Institute (Gatchina). After receiving permission from Malinovsky, a wooden temporary church, similar to the old one, was built in half a verst. But the construction of the stone church was not given to be realized.
The antimension of the Church of the Resurrection of Christ was consecrated on February 5, 1833 by Bishop Smaragd. The temple was single-altar. It kept such relics as the icons of the Tikhvin Mother of God in 1789, the Resurrection of Christ and the holidays in 1789, the prophet Elijah in 1788, the reliquary with a particle of the relics of Isaac of the Caves, sacred vessels in 1783.
Next to this church in 1916, another temple was built, also the Resurrection, the third in a row, the old church was turned into a chapel. Since 1937, a club was located in the premises of the old Resurrection Church, next to it was the house of Archpriest Nikolai Bystryakov. The fate of this pastor-confessor is very tragic and eventful. For many years he took care of his parish and the attached Tikhvin Church in Siverskaya, Peter and Paul Church in Kartashevskaya. During the Great Patriotic War, he served in the Pskov mission. When the Soviet troops arrived, the priest was arrested and exiled to a camp in Kazakhstan, where he died.
In August 1941, the new church burned down from a shell hit. All the utensils from it were transferred by local residents together with the Germans to the old church. During the occupation, services in the temple did not stop. In 1964 the Resurrection Church burned down. After the fire, the priest's house and the bells of the temple belfry miraculously survived.
Only in 1992, with the blessing of the Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga, a new Church of the Resurrection of Christ with a chapel and a bell tower was laid on the right side of the entrance to the former estate of the Hannibals. The main sponsor of the construction of the Resurrection Church was G. N. Timchenko, part of the funds for the temple was collected by local residents. The draft design of the temple was carried out by the local architect A. A. Semochkin. The final project of the temple was developed by the Honored Builder of the Russian Federation A. P. Senyakin.
The temple was consecrated in 2001, at the same time the archpriest, candidate of theology, Alexander Panichkin was appointed its rector. The temple and the surrounding area, under the leadership of Father Alexander, are constantly being decorated and equipped. The bells are installed on the belfry of the church, which were preserved after the fire of 1964. In 2006, the iconostasis was completed, it was completed by the icons of the Savior, the Life-Giving Trinity, the Mother of God and John the Baptist. Their author is Vladimir Alekseevich Kirpichev, professor of the Industrial and Art Academy of St. Petersburg.
The new temple has one throne. Services are held on weekends and holidays, in the morning and in the evening. Divine services are performed in the chapel, temple, cemeteries. The church has an Orthodox video lecture hall and a library of Orthodox literature.
