History | Starocherkassk Army Cathedral of Christ's Resurrection

The Army Cathedral of Christ’s Resurrection in the last 100 years

100 years ago in 1919, the Don Cossacks were to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Army Cathedral of Christ’s Resurrection. 20 years before, the board of the Don Army had made a petition to the Imperial Archaeological Commission...

Archpriest Grigory Levitskiy

Archpriest Grigory Andreyevich Levitsky 32 years: from 1840 until his death in 1872 served in the Starocherkassk Army Cathedral of Christ’s Resurrection. Loving the native antiquity and the Don history, he helped to clarify a number of historical facts...

Razin’s Chain

In front of the western entrance to the cathedral, the shackles and the iron chain, which Stepan Razin was chained, were firmly embedded in the wall. After the pirate robberies of merchant ships on the Caspian Sea in 1669,...

Construction of the Stone Cathedral

Cossacks were deeply religious people. They did not begin any important business without assiduous praying. The notion of sin was firm: “it’s a sin for relatives to woo brides between them”, “a grave sin to quarrel with parents”. The...

Cornelius Yakovlev

In the gallery of the cathedral in the wall, there is a plate, behind which the army ataman Cornelius Yakovlev is buried. The inscription on the plate: “In the year 7188 (1680) on 16th of July, the servant of...

The Azov Siege Seat

On the square in front of the Cathedral trophies of the famous Azov siege seat occupy a place of honor. In 1637 the Cossacks, tired of Tatar raids and taking advantage of the war between the Ottoman Empire and...