Architecture and decoration | Starocherkassk Army Cathedral of Christ's Resurrection

Iconostasis

A unique five-tier carved gilded iconostasis of the Army Cathedral of Christ’s Resurrection with one hundred and forty-nine icons of the XVIII-XIX centuries is a unique work of art in the Don and the South of Russia. The new...

Cathedral Architecture

The cathedral was built on the main square of Cherkassk – Maidan (the previous wooden versions of the cathedral were built much closer to the Don). In the architecture of the Maidan, asymmetry of the layout was consciously applied...

Bell Tower

Near the temple, a two-tier bell tower rises. There is an inscription next to the western entrance: “To the glory of the Holy, consubstantial, life-giving and indivisible Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, during reign of Her Imperial Majesty...

Choir Loft

In 1775, a choir loft was built around the walls of the church, like the Kiev-Uspensky Lavra, surrounded by baluster. The underneath was painted. All the icons are divided into two parts: the compositions of the Old Testament and...

Iron Plates

The military ataman Daniel Efremov in 1767 with the blessing of Tikhon of Voronezh, paved the whole church, instead of oak floors burnt in the fire, with iron plates. The inscriptions on the three plates tell us that Tsar...

Before the Revolution

Until 1917, the cathedral was rich in jewels. According to the cathedral priest Gregory Levitsky, in the middle of the XIX century about 800 kilograms of silver, 8 kilograms of gold products, 322 diamonds were kept here. After the...

Altar

The walls in the altar were painted in 1784 by a postulant of Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, and then deacon of the cathedral Philip Simanovich. On the gate wall, there is a large icon of the Virgin’s Coronation. This story, which...

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,...

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...