RUSSIAN CHURCHES

 
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Tserkov Nikoli Chudtvortsa v Pizhakh (Church of St Nicholas the wonderworker at Pizha) Krasovski page 303. A view from the other side is at mon140nikw.

The are three outstanding churches of the middle and second half of the seventeenth century still extant in Zamoskvareche (across the river), the southern part of old Moscow facing the Kremlin. One of them is the church of Saint Nicholas Shto v Pyzhakh dating from 1657 was built in the Streletskaya Sloboda, the principal burough inhabited by army soldiers, merchant-traders, and artisans, by order of one of the army officers, Bogdan Pyzhov. The street on which the church was built was named Pyatnitskoi, from the word "Pyatidesyatnitsa", the commemoration of the fiftieth day of the appearance of the Lord Christ's soul to the Apostles, following His resurrection.

 
     

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