Chapel of Alexander Nevsky

The Chapel of Alexander Nevsky stands in the very centre of Yaroslavl, by Deputatskaya Street next to the former Mytny market. It was raised in 1892 with money from the city traders in memory of the escape of Emperor Alexander III and his family in the train crash at Borki. The design was made by the diocesan architect Nikolai Pozdeev, who worked in the Russian style. The small red-brick mass is generously decorated with white ornament, with hanging pendants, kokoshnik gables and half-columns, while the tented roof is covered with scale tiles and crowned by a gilded cupola. After decades in which the building held a storehouse and a workshop, the chapel was returned to the church in the 1990s and restored. In the evening it is lit, and its silhouette is reflected in the basin of the fountain next to it.

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