Saint Anastasia Chapel, Chapel in Pskov, Russia.

Saint Anastasia Chapel stands at the southwest end of the Olgin Bridge over the Velikaya River in Pskov's Zavelichye district. Alexei Shchusev designed the 1911 chapel of Pskov flagstone limestone with brick, ornamented with the running-scroll and corbel bands of local building tradition. It is a small cube-like structure topped by a drum and a cupola with a cross, raised on a ten-metre base above the older 1710 chapel.

A wooden chapel was raised in 1710, when plague reached Pskov from Riga, and dedicated to Saint Anastasia. A stone chapel replaced it and stood for two centuries. In 1911, when the first permanent Olgin Bridge was built over the Velikaya, the old chapel was buried under the bridge's earthen ramp; a 10-metre substructure was erected over it and Alexei Shchusev's new limestone chapel placed on top, consecrated that October.

The chapel's name comes from Saint Anastasia, venerated as the protector of those who suffer; it was founded in 1710 during a plague epidemic. The interior preserves the complete fresco ensemble painted by Grigory Chirikov in 1913 after sketches by Nicholas Roerich, the only surviving monument with all of Roerich's murals. Look for the angels with the Mandylion above the entrance and the kneeling princes Vsevolod-Gavriil and Dovmont-Timofei.

The chapel stands at the southwestern end of the Olgin Bridge, on the left bank of the Velikaya in the Zavelichye district. It is unheated and kept locked as a museum storage and display object, so visits depend on the Pskov museum-reserve; ask there about access to the interior frescoes.

In 1969–1970, during reconstruction of the Olgin Bridge, the chapel was slated for demolition as having no historical or artistic value. Pskov architects intervened, and a test cleaning of the walls, compared with Roerich's sketches found in the Russian Museum's storerooms, confirmed his authorship. The 50-tonne structure was then sawn horizontally in two and lowered on metal cradles to the bridge abutment.