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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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