On the main square of Suzdal, opposite the Gostiny Dvor, the snow-white one-domed Church of the Resurrection with a bell tower rises. Like many other temples in Suzdal, the Resurrection Church was originally wooden.
Short story
This is evidenced by the entry in the scribe's book from 1617: "Behind the trading rows there is a church of the incoming of the Resurrection of Christ, wooden upward." In 1719, the Resurrection Church burned down from a fire, after which in 1720 a new stone church was erected in its place.... Only the bell, cast during the reign of Theodore I Ioannovich, the third son of Ivan the Terrible, has survived from the old church.
The inscription on the bell says that the wooden Church of the Resurrection existed in the 16th century: "This bell was cast in the summer of 1592 for the Church of the Resurrection of Christ beyond the rows." In 1739, a winter church was erected next to the summer Resurrection Church. Kazan Church, and together they formed an ensemble of "paired" temples.
Architecture and interior
The Church of the Resurrection in Suzdal is a rare example of a two-pillar cubic church. The basis of the church is a high quadrangle, the vaults of which rest on only two pillars. This design of the vaults frees the interior from the oppressive feeling of the heaviness of the floors, making it more spacious and light.
From left to right: Resurrection and Kazan churches
The decor of the Resurrection Church in Suzdal is laconic and austere. The four-pitched roof of the main volume is crowned with one drum, decorated with platbands and triangular pediments. A small onion dome is placed on the drum. The smooth walls of the quadrangle are decorated with corner pilasters, the windows are devoid of platbands, and only in the upper part of the building there is an openwork cornice made of keeled kokoshniks. A front porch is attached to the southern facade of the Resurrection Church, covered with a roof with two slopes. The porch rests on two round pillars terminated by a front. A stone bead is placed between the arches under the pediment.
From the east, the semicircle of the altar adjoins the church, and from the west - a rectangular porch decorated with a strip of ceramic balusters. On the walls and pillars of the Resurrection Church in Suzdal, fragments of paintings from the 18th - 19th centuries have been preserved... At the northwest corner of the porch there is a bell tower, built at the same time as the church. It is a quadrangle placed on an octahedron. Initially, the bell tower was not high, but later another tier was built over the octagon, decorating it with square niches with glazed tiles. In accordance with the architectural "fashion" of the capital Petersburg, the bell tower is not crowned with a tent typical for Suzdal, but with a spherical roof with a high spire. For a small fee, everyone can climb the bell tower, which offers a panoramic view of the Market Square and its environs.
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