Mirgorodskaya, 1 Residential House

In the Soviet times, the fate of the Feodorovsky Cathedral was sad: the domes were destroyed, the building was used for milk factory for more than 60 years. In 1993, the temple was returned to the Church, to be renovated somewhat later. It is now one of the most popular city parishes.

Along with the cathedral itself, the complex includes a clergy house and the Chapel of the New Martyrs of Russia built in the 1990s, as well as a brick wall reminiscing the Kremlin wall and connecting the Cathedral with an adjacent building at the Poltavskaya street. According to the architect’s idea, the wall was to symbolise the connection between the old and new Russia.

New buildings in the block bear the influence of the temple complex. Interestingly, the Evgeny Gerasimov and Partners Workshop started its search in this field in 2007 already, when the first sketches of the Tsarskaya Stolitsa (Tsar’s Capital) residential complex were drawn and the area around Feodorovsky Cathedral was rather depressive. Today, the three Tsarskaya Stolitsa buildings facing the cathedral square are well inhabited and look quite homey.

The building designed will complete the cathedral square ensemble while becoming, due to its location, one of the focus points of the square. It shall close the modest “casing” around the temple while supporting the style chosen by its architect. The colour combination of the red-brick walls and light-coloured architectural concrete details, as well as the decorative elements — the rusticated stone of the plinth, the three-centred arcs, the numerous stylised semi-columns and capitals, — are a reference to the motifs of the traditional Russian architecture.

We hope that it will be possible to relocate the car parking which at the moment is also located at the square.