Moscow region - Dubrovitsy

Church of the Sign of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Dubrovitsy

In the Dubrovitsy estate there is a diamond of our Moscow region - the Church of the Sign, included in the UNESCO monuments.
The temple appeared in Dubrovitsy thanks to Boris Golitsyn, the tutor of Peter I. The details of the building are very unusual: the church is crowned with a crown, instead of frescoes there are a huge number of sculptures on biblical themes. Golitsyn managed to build the Church of the Sign solely thanks to his good relations with Peter I, who was very interested in this project in the style of the early Italian Baroque. For that time, the temple was so atypical that the priests refused to consecrate it. Only after the death of Patriarch Adrian - the enemy of Catholicism - the church was consecrated (1704)