An architectural monument of the retrospective Russian style, a vivid example of the interpretation of Moscow church architecture of the 17th century. The chapel-burial vault of the Paskevich princes is a square in plan, tower-type structure, 18 m high, completed with an octagonal tent. The rectangular entrance is decorated with an arched portal with columns-vases, the rest of the edges are cut by small windows with the same plastic casing. The facades are faced with ocher bricks. The tomb is magnificently decorated with ceramic columns of various shapes, kokoshniks, rosettes, decorative belts, and openwork crosses. The interior of the chapel is decorated with multi-colored majolica tiles with floral ornaments and wall paintings, made by a group of local craftsmen under the direction of the artist-decorator S. Sadikov. The altar is made of black marble. The inner basement part of the walls, which were covered with ornamental painting (not preserved), was also faced with labradarite. Next to the chapel there is an entrance superstructure to the crypt - a burial vault, made in the same style as the chapel in a compact rectangular volume, the roof is crowned with a dome, inside there is a staircase to the crypt. The tomb itself in the form of a tunnel (28 m) with a cylindrical vault is placed underground. The front wall is decorated with a mosaic panel made of colored smalt in the form of two angels. Memorial plates with the names of the buried members of the Paskevich family were embedded in the walls.
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