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Similar, though not so sublime as the one at
Fili, is the Church of the Savior (Spasskaya tserkov') at the village of Ubory,
located about twenty miles west of Moscow. It was built by the well-known
Russian family, Sheremetev (Petr Vasil'evich Sheremetev), in 1693 -1697, and
Yakov C. Bukhvostov (a serf belonging to M. Yu. Tatischev) was the architect.
For foreigners living in Moscow the village of Ubori is off limits, but many
have seen the church from far away when driving to the nearby village of
Uspenskoe - a popular picnic area where hundreds of foreigners spend Sundays on
the shore of the Moskva river. Top Soviet officials who live a few miles beyond
Uspenskoe, see the church almost daily when driving to their Kremlin offices.
This church too was closed after the revolution, and now it is almost ruined by
neglect despite a sign which hangs from its wall and which says,
"Architectural Monument of 17th century." "Protected by the
State." On its white stone window stills are a few flower pots put there
by unobserved believers, who have been left without a church for decades.
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