Vvedensky Cathedral of St. Petersburg - built for the second in the senior guard of the Life Guards Semyonovsky regiment . The largest work of Konstantin Ton in the northern capital of Russia.
| Cathedral | |
| Vvedensky Cathedral of the Life Guards Semyonovsky Regiment | |
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 Photo of the 1900s. Photographer N. G. Matveev | |
| A country |  Russia |
| City | St. Petersburg |
| Denomination | Orthodoxy |
| Diocese | St. Petersburg diocese |
| Type of building | Cathedral |
| Architectural style | Russian-Byzantine |
| Project Author | Konstantin Ton |
| Architect | |
| Building | 1836 - 1842 |
| Status |  Identified object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation ( normative act ). (Wikigid database) |
| condition | destroyed |
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History
After the transfer of the Semenovsky regiment to St. Petersburg, a tent church was first set up for the regiment, and then several wooden churches. The last of them was dismantled when it turned out that it was hindering the construction of the Tsarskoye Selo railway . By order of Emperor Nicholas I, instead of the disassembled church, the construction of a new stone church was begun, the author of the project was Konstantin Andreyevich Ton. The work was carried out under the control of the Minister of the Court, Prince Peter Volkonsky , who was listed in the regiment as a general. Financing of construction was carried out at the expense of the treasury.
The building was laid down on August 22, 1837 , by 1839 the main works were completed. On November 21, 1842, in the presence of Nicholas I, the church was consecrated. Initially, the building had, in addition to the main altar, two additional chapels - the southern one in the name of the Right Prince Alexander Nevsky and the northern one in the name of the righteous Zechariah and Elizabeth. In 1906, during the reconstruction of the building in the basement, the chapel of the Holy Martyr Jacob was built, where Prince Peter Volkonsky († 1852), regiment commanders Count Vladimir Petrovich Kleinmikhel († 1882) and Georgy Alexandrovich Min († 1906), the three lower ranks, were buried. those who died during the December uprising of 1905 in Moscow and 26 officers who died in the First World War , among whom was the regiment commander S. I. Sovazh .
In 1907, extensive restoration work was carried out in the building. On November 18, 1912, the chapel of St. Joasaph of Belgorod and the Great Martyr Catherine was consecrated in the choirs of the church. In 1913, the church received the status of a cathedral.
March 8, 1932 by decision of the Leningrad Executive Committee, the cathedral was closed. In 1933, despite the fact that the building had the status of a monument of architecture, it was destroyed. On June 1, 2003, a memorial sign was erected on the site of the church.
The place where the cathedral stood (Vvedensky garden with the foundation of the cathedral) is assigned by the KGIOP to the identified objects of cultural heritage of the peoples of Russia. [one]
Interior
The main three-tier iconostasis and two lateral ones were constructed according to the design of K. A. Ton.
Icons from the former churches of the regiment were placed in the church, including the Greek “Miraculous Savior” and “Sign”, which were in the regiment during the battles of Poltava and Lesnaya . Emperor Nicholas I presented a copy of Correggio 's Adoration of the Shepherds. In 1914, the Patriarch Damian of Jerusalem presented the Cathedral with the icon of the Resurrection of Christ, in which a particle of the Holy Sepulcher was placed.
In addition, the cathedral contained military regiment standards, plaques with the names of officers who died in battles, and field marshals batons of Prince Peter Volkonsky and Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich were shown in special windows.