The Church of Peter and Paul in the Tanners

If you walk along Veliky Novgorod, go beyond the northern section of the shaft of the Okolny City, you can see a whole ensemble of ancient architectural monuments. This area in the annals appears as "tanners", and the name is not accidental - in ancient times there were numerous leather workshops. And it is here that one of the best Novgorod buildings is located - the Church of Peter and Paul in Kozhevniki, built in 1406. It is one of the most mature, artistically holistic monuments of architecture of the XV century.

The walls of the temple are made of large limestone blocks, and all the decorative decoration is made of brick. Due to the fact that the building is not plastered, it looks exactly as all ancient Russian churches looked centuries ago. Aspen lemech, which covers the dome and three-bladed completion of the facades, combined with the rich red color of brickwork, creates a completely amazing color effect. Thanks to its chiseled forms and the play of light on the facades, the Church of Peter and Paul is perfectly inscribed in the surrounding landscape.

During the Great Patriotic War, the Church of Peter and Paul was badly damaged, but in 1959 it was restored in its original forms. The iconostasis of the XVI century is almost completely preserved and is now represented in the exposition of the Novgorod Museum.