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Church
of
Christ's
Resurrection
(Храм
Воскресения
Христова)
is
Orthodox
church
of
the
Simferopol
and
Crimean
Diocese
of
the
of
the
Moscow
Patriarchate
over
the
village
of
Foros.
The
height
of
the
building
above
sea
level
is
412
meters.
Monument
of
Russian
architecture
of
the
late
XIX
century.
The
church
was
commissioned
by
a
local
landowner
to
commemorate
Alexander
III's
survival
in
the
Borki
train
disaster
1888—1892.
The
landowner's
name
was
Alexander
Kuznetsov;
he
was
a
tea
trader
from
Moscow.
Nikolai
Chagin,
a
celebrated
architect
from
Wilno,
designed
the
church
in
a
bizarre
blend
of
Rastrelliesque
Baroque,
Russian
Revival,
and
Byzantine
Revival.
The
last
King
Nicholas
II
of
Russia,
and
his
wife
prayed
at
the
church
on
the
day
of
the
10th
anniversary
of
the
Borki
incident.
After
the
Russian
Revolution
the
church
was
closed
for
worshippers,
its
priest
exiled
to
Siberia
and
frescoes
overpainted.
