A Walk Around Klin

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Klin is known as Tchaikovsky's town: the composer spent the last years of his life here. The atmosphere of a provincial district town, with wooden houses and quiet streets, has survived to this day. The town is surrounded by forests and lies on the road from Moscow to Tver. Visitors come for a relaxed stroll through the historic center and a look at the local heritage.

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Church of the Resurrection in Klin

Point on route “A Walk Around Klin”

Point 5

Church of the Resurrection

🕍 Place of worship • 📜 Historic site

Historical Background

The Church of the Resurrection stands in the center of Klin on the high bank of the Sestra River. The earliest records of a church here date from the mid-16th century, when a wooden building stood on the site. According to one version, townspeople killed during the raid by Ivan the Terrible's oprichniki were buried here. In 1709–1712 a brick church in the Moscow Baroque style replaced it. The “Chronicle of the Klin Trinity Cathedral” mentions the consecration of the stone church in 1712, under Tsar Peter the Great.

Architecture

The brick building stands out for its elegant decoration: ornamental brickwork window surrounds, cornices, half-columns and paired pilasters. The church has an altar apse, a refectory and a three-tier bell tower that offers a panorama of the town and its surroundings. Its builders intended the Church of the Resurrection to be part of the Trinity Cathedral complex, which had taken shape in Klin by the 19th century.

Its Fate in the 20th Century

In the 1930s the church was closed and its appearance was significantly altered. In Soviet times the building housed various institutions. Only in 2000 was it returned to the Russian Orthodox Church, and after restoration it regained its historic proportions. The church keeps valuable icons, including an image of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in a silver cover, donated in 1683 by the voivode Dmitry Averkiev. Today it is a working church, and its interior holds both new icons and ancient relics venerated by parishioners.