All Saints Church, Eastern Orthodox church in Sokol District, Moscow, Russia
All Saints Church is a yellow stucco-over-brick building in the Annenskoye Baroque style, consisting of a central cube-shaped nave, a refectory, and a bell tower. The main facade has arched windows with white surrounds and a dark doorway under a curved hood. The central mass is topped by a red-brown rounded roof with a small white drum and a golden onion dome, while the taller bell tower to the right carries a smaller golden onion dome.
A first stone church was built here in 1683 under boyar Ivan Miloslavsky, after which the village took the name Vsekhsvyatskoye. The present church was built in 1733–1736 at the initiative of Princess Daria Archilovna of Imereti; its side altars were consecrated in 1733 and the main altar in 1736. In 1812 French troops used it as a stable, and restoration followed in 1813–1815. Closed from 1939 to 1946, it was granted the status of patriarchal metochion in 1992.
The village was renamed Vsekhsvyatskoye after the 1683 stone church, and services here were held in Georgian until Georgia joined Russia in 1783; Russian and Georgian rites continued side by side into the early 20th century. The churchyard held a Georgian cemetery where the writer Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani and Ioane Bagrationi, father of General Pyotr Bagration, were buried.
The church stands in the Sokol district, near the site of the former Vsesvyatskoye cemetery, north of the city centre. The bell tower and main entrance face the street, while the low white wall with arched openings runs along the base. The church is an active parish; services are held regularly, and visitors should dress modestly.
The cemetery that once surrounded the church was destroyed by 1982; the tombstone of Ioane Bagrationi, erected by his son General Pyotr Bagration, survives and now stands north of the church at the memorial to the reconciliation of peoples.
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