Assumption Admiralty Church

The Assumption Church is one of the oldest and only preserved monuments of the city associated with the creation of the first Russian Navy. The full name of the church is the Assumption of the Most Holy Mother of God and the Virgin Mary. The first mention of the church, then still wooden, refers to 1594. Around 1600, by the “position” of Tsar Boris Godunov, the Assumption Monastery arose around the temple. Its founder is Abbot Kirill. 1616: In the Assumption Church was the chapel of Theodore Stratilat. The wooden temple suffered from the spring flood of the Voronezh River, so at the end of the XVII century, hegumen Titus set out to build a stone five-domed temple that could accommodate up to 500 people. At that time, the Church of the Assumption was considered the main one in the city. The year of its completion is disputed, with three dates proposed: 1694, 1699 and 1703. The Assumption Church is the second stone building in the history of Voronezh after the bell tower of the Aleksiev-Akatov monastery. When, under Peter I, shipbuilding began in Voronezh, a German settlement grew near the Assumption Monastery in a short time, an admiralty was built on the island, which included a citadel (fortress), a stone ceikhhaus, a “sail yard”. Nearby built the palace of the king, the houses of his companions: A. Menshikov, F. Apraksin, F. Golovin, N. Zotov. There is a shipyard on both sides of the monastery.