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Church of Troitsi, chto u Sukharevoi bashni
na Listakh, (Church of the Trinity that is by the Sukharev tower on Listi),
1650-1661, on Sretenka street by the Sadovaya - Sukharevya ring (now the Garden
Ring) near where the famous Sukharev gate tower was on the wall of Zemli gorod.
This is the extension of Bolshaia Lubyanka street so one can easily walk here
from Lubyanka square past the Sretinski monastery. It was built in the streltsi
slaboda (quarter). The church is historically very important for many reasons.
The name, na listakh, came because on the fence for a long time in the 18th
century hung and were sold common people's paintings that were called
"lubochni" (meaning cheap popular prints) but in earlier times as
"listi". With the establishment of the first printing press by Ivan
IV the making of 'lubochni' became quite popular and they were made in the
neighboring quarter, that of the pechatniki, the printers. These showings on
the fence (wall) and sales continued into the 20th century. Today collectors
pay big money for originals from this period.
At this church in 1632 there was an important wooden cemetary church and
in 1650 a stone church was built for the streltsi who had 500 homes around
there. In 1657 the church was not yet completed because then the Patriarch
Nikon complained that it was being built without his approval and ordered the
work to cease and the church starosta was excommunicated for his error. Then
the local streltzi under their commander, Vasili Pushechnikov, in 1667 -71
began their campaign to Astrakhan and there defeated the cossacks and brought
Stenka Razin to Moscow. Then Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich to do a good turn for
the streltsi gave them as a gift 150,000 bricks to build their church. His gift
provided most of the shape, the church utensils and furnishing. The church was
completed in 1671, but in 1689 during the fire it was heavily damaged. The
young Tsar Peter, desiring to gain favor with the important regiment against
the rebellion of Fed'ka Shcheglovit, gave the streltsi 700 rubles to repair the
church. There are two chapels in the church - first is Pokrova Pressvyatoi
Bogoroditsi, built in 1680 as a result of the successful streltsi campaign on
1678 to Chigirin against Ottoman Sultan Selim who was then attacking Ukraine.
That chapel burned in the fire of 1772 and was rebuilt with the donation of the
industrialist Pankrati Kolosov. The second chapel was built to the right in
1680 in the name of Ivan of Damascus, but in 1805 the name was changed to that
of Metropolitan Saint Alexei of Moscow. The bell tower was built in 1788.
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