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Near the south wall of the Convent of the Intercession stands the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul built in 1694. It is one of the most majestic specimens of late Suz-dalian architecture possibly due to the influence of the neighbouring convent which ordered the church to be built. It looks more like a cathedral than an ordinary parish church. The broad, powerful main body has a square vaulted roof with five domes. The outer walls are adorned at the top with a row of horseshoe-shaped kokoshniks and divided in the traditional way by nar­row pilaster strips between which there are windows with elaborate surrounds. The church was formerly ad­joined on its west side by a single-storey parvis with a deeply recessed portal, and on its north side by a chapel. On the southwest corner there was a tent-shaped bell-tower of majestic, austere appearance. Two sides of its square base adjoined the parvis while the north and west outer walls had arches supported by a short round corner pillar. This motif was suggested by similar arched entrances with corner pillars in the old cathedral of the Convent of the Intercession. The picturesque asymmetri­cal composition of the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul possibly influenced the design of the Church of St. Cos-mas and St. Damian by the Kamenka which we examined earlier. Its neighbouring heated church was built in 1712. One of its altars was donated by Peter the Great's first wife, Yevdokia Lopukhina banished to the Convent of the Intercession, in memory of her dead son Alexei who had opposed Peter's reforms.

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