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Sts. Peter and Paul Church – a Miracle of Petrine Baroque

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The Sts. Peter and Paul Church with a sharp spire, like that of a Gothic cathedral, is the only monument of Petrine Baroque on the Upper Volga. It was the tallest building in Yaroslavl for several centuries. Next to the church there is Petropavlovsky Park, which is the oldest in the city.

History has not preserved the names of the masters who worked at creating Sts. Peter and Paul Church in the first half of the 18th century. It is believed that Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg served as an example for the architects. The Yaroslavl church arose near the first linen factory in the city at the initiative of its owners, the Zatrapeznovs family. The temple differs from other churches in Yaroslavl: its height is almost 50 meters and the belfry is crowned not with a dome, but with a spire. Inside the church was designed as a two-story, with winter and summer temples. The interior decoration works were going on until the early twentieth century: a wooden staircase was replaced with a marble one, the walls were painted in imitation of wild marble, and a glased tile stove appeared. Two shrines were the main treasures of the temple: the ivory icon "Resurrection of Christ, with Church Feasts", which was allegedly gifted to Zatrapeznovs by Emperor Peter the Great himself, and a silver cross with a particle of relics of St. Anthony the Roman.Petropavlovsky Park around the cathedral was also made in the 18th century. It had ponds and a cascade of waterfalls. The park was the favourite place of both workers of the manufactory and more respectable city people.

Sts. Peter and Paul Church – a Miracle of Petrine Baroque

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