In Ivanovo hills

Etude. Church of St. John the Evangelist, md Ivanovka, Arzamas. It was built back in 1552 by order of Ivan the Terrible, during his third Kazan campaign. First, the structure was made of wood and only after more than a century, in 1678 a stone church was built. It is noteworthy that the church stands next to the most infamous "Ivanovo bumps." The place where they were executed around 11, 000 people, the rebels-razintsev that rose up to fight for a better life, but losers.. later buried here and those who fought under the banner of Pugachev. Later, according to the custom, they were built small chasovenki- "Gods houses", where organized the memorial service for the dead each year. But time and erased them, remembering them only Photochronicle. And so it happened that a wooden predecessor church witnessed the sad events..