The Church of Simeon the Stylite on Povarskaya - built in the 70s of the 17th century by order of Tsar Fyodor Alekseevich and the stone church on Povarskaya on Novy Arbat in Moscow that has survived to this day.
A wooden church stood on this site already in 1625. According to one version, it was consecrated on the day of the crowning of Boris Godunov, since this day fell on the feast of Simeon the Stylite.
Stone Church of Simeon the Stylite was built in 1676 by order of Tsar Fyodor Alekseevich (according to other versions - in 1679) in the Russian patterned style, with five domes, a refectory, a bell tower and two chapels, each with a separate apse and dome. The main altar of the temple is Vvedensky, and the chapels are in the name of Simeon the Stylite and St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, the latter in 1759 was reconsecrated in the name of Demetrius of Rostov.
White stone tombstones from the 17th-18th centuries have been preserved within the walls of the building.
On the church site there was a wooden house, in which in 1819 - mid-1820s. lived the actor P. S. Mochalov.
After the revolution Church of Simeon the Stylite on Povarskaya was closed and in 1930 was actually scrapped. Miraculously surviving, dilapidated, it survived until the construction of the Kalininsky Prospekt highway, and they were going to demolish it so that it would not introduce architectural dissonance with the high-rise buildings being erected, but through the efforts of the public they managed to defend it.
By 1966, the building was almost completely destroyed. When designing Kalinin Avenue (New Arbat), they decided to leave the temple. The building has been restored. They restored the original shape of the roof, even decorated the tops with openwork crosses, which were almost immediately cut off by order of the higher authorities with an autogenous gun. The surrounding old houses were destroyed, and the temple now stands among the high-rise buildings of New Arbat on a small green island of lawn.
In 1968, the temple building was given to the All-Russian Society for Nature Conservation, and it housed an exhibition hall of small animals and birds: guinea pigs, white rats, parrots, canaries, etc. Soon the small building was thoroughly saturated with the smell of manure. The interiors of the temple were completely destroyed. By the 1990s, the temple hosted painting and folk art exhibitions.
In 1990, crosses were again placed on the heads of the temple (by order of the deputy chairman of the Moscow City Executive Committee, Matrosov). In 1992 Church of Simeon the Stylite was again given to the church and re-painted by young artists. It turned out that the temple icon of St. Simeon the Stylite, which was kept by the parishioners, had survived from the previous decoration.
The Church of Simeon the Stylite was built in 1676, and according to other sources, in 1679, and is one of the examples of a Moscow parish church of the 17th century in the “patterned” style, which has come down to us almost unchanged. The temple has a typical layout for its time: the adjacent quadrangle, refectory and bell tower are built along the same line from east to west. The quadrangle of the temple is covered with a closed vault and crowned with five domes on solid drums, and is continued from the east by a three-part apse. On both sides of the refectory there are two aisles, each with its own dome and apse. From the north, emphasizing the connection of the temple with Povarskaya Street, a porch with a gable roof on massive pillars adjoins the quadrangle. The building was erected from large bricks on a white stone plinth.
Subsequently, the temple underwent minor reconstructions. The refectory was slightly extended towards the west. In a photograph from the end of the 19th century from Naydenov’s album, you can see that the roof of the temple was subjected to a simplification typical of many Moscow churches of the 17th century: the completion of the quadrangle with tiers of kokoshniks was replaced by a hipped roof, and the aisles were brought under a high gable roof, common with the refectory, reaching the tier of the bell tower. During the restoration of the 1960s, the original completions were restored.
The main altar of the temple was consecrated in honor of the Feast of the Entry. The church is called the Temple of Simeon the Stylite after one of the chapels (the second chapel, St. Nicholas, was reconsecrated in the name of Demetrius of Rostov around 1759). The dedication to Simeon the Stylite has been preserved from an older temple that stood on this site and was first mentioned in 1625. It is assumed that the original temple was built in connection with the crowning of Boris Godunov, which took place on the day of the celebration of Simeon the Stylite. It is likely that the ancient temple was erected on the instructions of Boris Godunov himself.
The wedding of N.P. Sheremetev with P.I. Zhemchugova-Kovaleva (in 1801), S.T. Aksakov with O.S. Zaplatina (in 1816) took place in the temple. The priest of this temple in 1852 gave communion to N.V. Gogol, who lived nearby, before his death. A very brief mention of the temple can be found in the seventh chapter of Eugene Onegin: “In Moscow, lives with Simeon.”
During Soviet times, the temple was closed (no later than 1940), was supposed to be scrapped, and stood in ruins. During the construction of New Arbat, the church was restored with maximum restoration of the appearance of the 17th century. There were even crosses installed on the domes, but they were soon removed by order of the authorities. The location of the temple turned out to be very advantageous: at the very beginning of New Arbat, on a small hill, the slopes of which are covered with lawn, it is clearly visible from the wide avenue. Almost immediately after the restoration, in 1968, the temple became the exhibition hall of the All-Russian Society for Nature Conservation. It hosted exhibitions of small animals, birds, and aquarium fish.
Returned to believers in 1992, services were resumed. The temple icon of Simeon the Stylite, preserved by the parishioners, was returned to its place in the temple.
The Temple of St. Simeon the Stylite was first mentioned in the archives from 1624-1625. The building was built on the site of an ancient, most likely wooden temple that had stood here since the time of Boris Godunov. On the temple icon of St. Simeon the Stylite (unfortunately, not preserved) there was an inscription - “year 7132” (1624 according to modern chronology). The modern stone building was built in 1676-1679 at the expense of the treasury, by the Tsar and Grand Duke Fyodor Alekseevich. In archival documents, the temple is first mentioned as the Church of the Entry of the Blessed Virgin Mary into the Temple (according to the main altar), which is “behind the Arbat Gate in Povarskaya Street.” The temple also had chapels in the name of St. Simeon the Stylite and St. Nicholas (since 1715), who in 1759 was reconsecrated in the name of St. Demetrius of Rostov. In the future, the temple is referred to as the temple of St. Simeon the Stylite on Dekhtyarev's garden, on Arbat, at the Arbat Gate or on Povarskaya. The land plot under the church property and the clergy's property occupied quite a significant area at the intersection of Bolshaya Molchanovka and Povarskaya streets. The temple belongs to the so-called “fiery” churches that were built in Moscow from the middle of the 16th century (for example, the Church of St. Nicholas in Pyzhi, the Sign at the Petrovsky Gate, the Entry of the Virgin Mary into the Temple in Sadovniki). During the 17th-18th centuries, the building was rebuilt and updated more than once. In 1735, through the care of Prince I.A. Golitsyn, in memory of his deceased parents, the chapel of St. Nicholas was restored and re-consecrated, in 1738 the throne, altar and bridge were renewed, and in 1798 the altar. When the French entered Moscow in September 1812 and began plundering the city, they did not spare the churches. The temple of Simeon the Stylite did not escape a deplorable fate. According to the Moscow Consistory, it, like many other churches in the capital, was burned during a fire. The clergy, led by rector Stefan Nikitich Popov, and the parishioners, with zeal and love, began to restore the burnt and desecrated shrine. The archives preserved the “Case of the consecration of the Church of Simeon the Stylite on Povarskaya” from 1812. By 1818, the clergy's property, which had also been burned during the fire, was completely restored. What the Church of St. Simeon the Stylite on Povarskaya looked like by the end of the 19th century can be found out from the metric of 1887-1891. In 1917, the Bolsheviks began to close and destroy churches. From 1934 to 1938, services of “renovationists” were held in the temple building. In 1938 the temple was closed. According to one version, the closure of the temple was due to the fact that the daughter of F.I. Chaliapin ordered her father's funeral service here. In September 1938, the Krasnopresnensky District Council issued a resolution on the transfer of the “former church building” to Raipromtrest. Subsequently, the temple building was used for a variety of purposes. For example, the temple was occupied by the “Medinstrument” workshop, and since 1968 the exhibition hall of the All-Russian Society for Nature Conservation was located in the temple building. As a result of numerous reconstructions during the Soviet era and the use of the temple for other purposes, the building had largely lost its artistic value and was in poor technical condition. By the time of the restoration of 1965-1966, all the drums and domes of the main volume and aisles were demolished, the bell tier, the bell tower tent and the apse of the northern aisle were dismantled, the floor of the refectory was cut down and the ceiling of the refectory was hemmed, the roofing was lost, and the floors and interior decoration were destroyed. The temple was restored in 1965-1966, when the Moscow authorities decided to lay a wide avenue on the site of the cozy Arbat alleys and the famous Dog Square, which was supposed to personify the new, socialist Moscow. The temple, which allegedly interfered with the construction of a new avenue, was planned to be demolished several times. Finally, a decision was made to restore the temple. Not the least role in preserving the Temple of Simeon the Stylite as a historical monument was played by the architect-restorer L.I. Antropov, friend and ally of the outstanding figure of Russian culture P.D. Baranovsky, who saved and brought back to life many architectural monuments of the past. V.A. Desyatnikov, who worked with L.I. Antropov in the Scientific and Methodological Council for the Protection of Monuments, says in his book “With the Cross and Without the Cross”: “When a powerful excavator arrived to destroy an ancient structure disfigured by perestroika, Leonid Ivanovich climbed into an excavator bucket and did not give the opportunity to work until G.V. Alferova and P.D. Baranovsky brought an order from the USSR Ministry of Culture to place the monument under state protection.” Restoration work was carried out in 1965-1966 by the Central Scientific Research Center of the USSR Ministry of Culture. The author of the restoration project was O.D. Savitskaya. The project involved the restoration of the monument using a holistic restoration method based on field survey data, the additional use of analogies and archival photographs of the monument. As a result of the work done, extensions and elements of later transformations that distorted the appearance of the building were dismantled, the cultural layer was removed to the level of the 17th century, and the area around the church was paved. The vaulted ceilings of the refectory, two tiers of kokoshniks and the main volume of the temple were restored to their original form. The shape of the domes, the height of the drums and the tent of the bell tower were restored on the basis of archival photographs using the photo method. The original shapes of window and door openings and their decorative frames were also restored. The temple was restored and restored. All that remained was to erect the surviving crosses on the domes, but this was not done. Since 1968, the temple has been occupied by the Exhibition Hall of the All-Russian Society for Nature Conservation. By this time, the paintings in the temple were practically destroyed, only walled-in white stone slabs from the 17th-18th centuries remained in the northern and southern walls. The temple was placed under state protection (protection document No. 268). It became a favorite fragment of compositions on the theme “Old and New Moscow”. In 1990, the openwork gilded crosses, which had lain in the basement for a quarter of a century, were finally re-erected onto the domes. And in 1991, it was decided to return the temple to believers. In 1992, a minor consecration of the temple took place and services began. But the building returned to the Church was in the most deplorable condition. Bare walls outside and inside, destroyed thrones... But churches do not die, and gradually, through the efforts of Father Superior Sergius Nikitin and parishioners, the temple began to come to life. And finally, a sign appeared on the temple door: “The temple is open.”
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Temple of Simeon the Stylite on Povarskaya June 25th, 2012
In Moscow, at the intersection of Povarskaya and Novy Arbat streets, there is the Temple of Simeon the Stylite on Povarskaya, which miraculously survived after Kalinin Avenue was laid along it (now Novy Arbat). Currently, the temple is an architectural monument of federal significance, and it was built approximately in 1676-1679 by order of Tsar Fyodor Alekseevich in the Russian pattern style. 
A wooden church stood on this site already in 1625. According to one version, it was consecrated on the day of the crowning of Boris Godunov, since this day fell on the feast of Simeon the Stylite. 
The stone church was built in 1676 by order of Tsar Fyodor Alekseevich (according to other versions - in 1679) in the Russian patterned style, with five domes, a refectory, a bell tower and two chapels, each with a separate apse and dome. 
The main altar of the temple is Vvedensky, and the chapels are in the name of Simeon the Stylite and St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, the latter in 1759 was reconsecrated in the name of Demetrius of Rostov. 
White stone tombstones from the 17th-18th centuries have been preserved within the walls of the building. 
On the church site there was a wooden house in which the actor P.S. Mochalov lived in 1819 - mid-1820s. 
A parishioner of the Church of Simeon the Stylite on Povarskaya in the last years of his life was N.V. Gogol, who then lived in the Tolstoy house on Nikitsky Boulevard. 
I was able to find only two pre-revolutionary photos of the temple, but in them you can clearly see what it looked like before its “restoration” in the 20th century. The earliest photograph dates back to 1881:
You can clearly see the bell tower of the temple in the photograph from the turn of the 19th-20th centuries - the ugly 25-story panel building that will appear after the formation of New Arbat Street is not visible behind it.
After the revolution, the church was closed and in 1930 it was actually scrapped. Miraculously surviving, dilapidated, it survived until the construction of the Kalininsky Prospekt highway, and they were going to demolish it so that it would not introduce architectural dissonance with the high-rise buildings being erected, but through the efforts of the public they managed to defend it. This is what the temple looked like in the first half of the 1960s:
By 1966, the building was almost completely destroyed. View from Povarskaya Street to the no longer existing and not yet reconstructed bell tower of the temple in 1965:
When designing Kalinin Avenue (New Arbat), they decided to leave the temple. The building has been restored. They restored the original shape of the roof, even decorated the tops with openwork crosses, which were almost immediately cut off by order of the higher authorities with an autogenous gun. The restored temple in 1969 from the New Arbat side:
The surrounding old houses were destroyed, and the temple now stands among the high-rise buildings of New Arbat on a small green island of lawn. 
Another photograph from 1969 - the temple was completely lost against the backdrop of built apartment buildings, so how it survived at all without fitting into the new scale of the newly formed avenue is very surprising.
The frame from the 1970 film “Belorussky Station” clearly shows the temple and the beginning of Povarskaya Street (then it was Vorovskogo Street), as well as the gray building of a high-rise residential building, which has now become the background for modern photographs of the temple.
In 1968, the temple building was given to the All-Russian Society for Nature Conservation, and it housed an exhibition hall of small animals and birds. Soon the small building was completely saturated with the smell of manure. The interiors of the temple were completely destroyed. The photo from 1973 shows that this exhibition is taking place in the temple:
But this is how local residents and their children had fun in the winter in 1976 - it is impossible to see this in this place in our time.
1982 - it is clearly visible that the temple is located on the corner of Povarskaya and Novy Arbat streets - nothing else has changed here until now:
I really like the photograph I found from 1984 - the photo itself is of good quality and the temple is clearly visible:
1987-1988 - a photo of the temple again against the background of a gray high-rise building:
In 1989, it is clear that the temple underwent minor restoration work:
By the 1990s, the temple hosted painting and folk art exhibitions. A small part of the temple in 1991:
In 1990, crosses were again placed on the heads of the temple (by order of the deputy chairman of the Moscow City Executive Committee, Matrosov). 
In 1992, the Temple of Simeon the Stylite was again transferred to the church and re-painted by artists. It turned out that the temple icon of St. Simeon the Stylite, which was kept by the parishioners, had survived from the previous decoration. 
The temple is also known for the fact that famous people of their time were married here: in 1801, the secret wedding of Count N.P. Sheremetev and actress P.I. Zhemchugova-Kovalyova took place here; in 1816, the writer S.T. Aksakov and O.S. Zaplatina were married; in 1918, the future wife of Mikhail Bulgakov, E.S. Nuremberg, was married here with her first husband, Yu.M. Neyolov; in 2005, Nikolai Karachentsov and his wife Lyudmila Porgina were married in the church (the sacrament took place on the 30th anniversary of their wedding). 
The Temple of Simeon the Stylite is located on Povarskaya at the address: Povarskaya Street, no. 5. The nearest metro station is Arbatskaya.
When writing this article, in addition to my own photographs, photographs of old Moscow from the website were used
Church of Simeon the Stylite on Povarskaya
It turns white against the background of the time-grayed skyscrapers of New Arbat. And it seems that the noise and bustle of this congested city highway bypasses it. The small, whitewashed church stands as a reminder of the existence of completely different, enduring values.
The temple on this site was first mentioned in documents in 1625, during the reign of Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov. Then the temple was wooden and in some documents it was also listed as the church on the Dekhtyarny Garden, near the Arbat Gate.
Here was the palace Povarskaya Sloboda. It was one of the so-called feeding settlements that served the royal family. Their inhabitants gave the name to Povarskaya Street. People from the staff of the Nourishing Palace lived here. By the way, according to data from 1573, there were almost 500 of them: cooks, bread makers, tablecloth makers, connectors and others. This is where the names of the lanes between the current New Arbat and Bolshaya Nikitskaya came from: Khlebny, Skatertny, Stolovy, Nozhovy lanes. By the way, it is believed that it was the servants of the Povarskaya Sloboda who gave Moscow another wonderful name for a place in the same area - Kurya Nozhki. Allegedly, the royal cooks threw away a lot of chicken feet that littered the area. Although, of course, Chicken Legs have nothing to do with chickens. According to another version, to give “on chicken legs” meant “to give as a tip.”
In fact, the settlement of the royal cooks did not live in poverty - by the 17th century there were two churches in it. Since the 12th century, Povarskaya Street was an ancient Volotsk road that led to Volokolamsk and Veliky Novgorod. It served not only as a trade road, but also as a sovereign road, a kind of “government highway.” Ivan III Vasilyevich traveled along it to Novgorod and returned to Moscow in 1471, and in 1572 Ivan IV Vasilyevich the Terrible took the same route.
There is a version that the original wooden temple was erected during the time of Boris Fedorovich Godunov. The first elected Russian Tsar was crowned king on September 1, 1598, on New Year's Day, which was celebrated in Rus' as the day of Simeon the Stylite, or Semenov Day, the day of Semyon the Flyer.
Church of Simeon the Stylite on Povarskaya
And it is clear that in honor of this saint and in memory of such an important event, the new king ordered the construction of temples. Including, perhaps, in the palace Povarskaya Sloboda at the Arbat Gate.
In 1679, during the reign of Tsar Fedor III Alekseevich, the son of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, a new one was built from large bricks on the site of the wooden temple. This temple has survived to this day.
The small church of Simeon the Stylite on Povarskaya Street was made in the Russian pattern style, with five domes, a refectory, a bell tower and two chapels, each with a separate apse and dome. The main altar of the temple is Vvedensky, and the chapels are in the name of Simeon the Stylite and Nicholas the Wonderworker.
The aisles adjoin the originally lower refectory, which was later raised in the vaults and extended in length from the west.
The exterior decoration of the church is simple and at the same time allows it to look very elegant. This is largely achieved thanks to the upper part of the main volume with rows of kokoshniks and patterned drums under the small onions of the domes. The openwork tent of the bell tower with arched openings and two rows of “rumor” windows framed by platbands echoes the rows of kokoshniks and drums.
Under the rows of kokoshniks there is a wide carved frieze. The drums of the side chapels are also lavishly decorated.
The ringing of the bells of the Simeon Church was special. After all, bells cast by Fyodor Dmitrievich Motorin were installed on the bell tower. The famous master of casting of the 17th century was the leading foundry worker of the Cannon Yard and the founder of an entire dynasty of foundry workers. At the Cannon Yard, he not only supervised the work, but also cast bells for churches and monasteries. The surviving bells, such as those cast for the Novodevichy Convent, still ring regularly. But the bells of the Simeon Church were lost in the 30s of the twentieth century.
Interestingly, this temple was popular among Muscovites, and especially among the Moscow intelligentsia, as a wedding venue. It is possible that it all started in 1801. One of the most secret and at the same time the most famous and sensational weddings in high society took place here. One of the richest people of his time, Count Nikolai Petrovich Sheremetev, married his theater actress Praskovya Ivanovna Zhemchugova-Kovalyova. The sacrament was performed in the strictest confidence; only the four closest and most faithful friends of the young couple were invited to it. But this event still became known, just as the amazing love story of the count and the serf became known.
There is a scientific version that the sacrament of this marriage took place in the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, which once stood on Sapozhkovskaya Square near the Trinity Gate of the Kremlin. But in people’s memory, it is the temple on Povarskaya that will forever be associated with the names of Nikolai Petrovich and Praskovya Ivanovna.
Fifteen years later, here, in the church on Povarskaya, the writer Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov and Olga Semyonovna Zaplatina were married. Olga Semyonovna was the daughter of a Suvorov general and a captured Turkish woman, Igel-Syum. Their son, Konstantin Sergeevich Aksakov, followed in his father’s footsteps and devoted his life to literature, history, and philology. And he became one of the ideologists of Slavophilism.
And among the parishioners, of course, they remember Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol. The writer then lived in the Tolstoy house on Nikitsky Boulevard. The priest of the church gave communion to the dying writer in February 1852.
After the revolution the church was closed. In 1930, it was actually scrapped. They demolished the beautiful fence and dismantled some of the parts of the church itself. Dilapidated, it reached the decision to build a new Moscow highway - Kalinin Avenue (New Arbat). From 1962 to 1967, part of Arbat was demolished. On the even side of New Arbat, five 24-story double frame-panel residential tower houses, similar to each other, were erected. On the odd side of New Arbat, administrative buildings were built that looked like open books. People nicknamed the new high-rises “Moscow’s dentures.”
In 1990, its initial part, Vozdvizhenka Street, was separated from the avenue. The rest of it was named New Arbat Street in 1993.
Construction led to disruption of the layout and destruction of a number of architectural monuments of the 18th–19th centuries. But, fortunately, the Church of Simeon the Stylite was preserved. In 1966, they even began to restore it as an architectural monument. True, then the exhibition hall of the All-Russian Society for Nature Conservation was placed in it. That is, a living corner with animals and birds.
In 1990, crosses were again placed on the heads of the temple. In 1992, the church was handed over to believers. And then it turned out that the temple icon of St. Simeon the Stylite had survived from the previous decoration. It was kept by parishioners. And the once popular wedding sacraments began to take place in the temple again.
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Church of Simeon the Stylite on Povarskaya was built in 1676. (in some cases there is a dating of 1676-1679). For the first time a temple (wooden) was mentioned at this place in 1625. In some documents it is also listed as the Church of the Entry of the Blessed Virgin Mary into the Temple on the Dekhtyarny Garden, near the Arbat Gate. This area was a palace Cook's settlement, where people from the staff of the Nourishing Palace lived (according to 1573, there were almost 500 people: cooks, bread workers, pomyas, tablecloth makers, connectors...). This is where the names of the streets and alleys between the current New Arbat and Bolshaya Nikitskaya came from: Povarskaya Street, Khlebny, Skatertny, Stolovy, Nozhovy lanes. The settlement of the royal cooks was rich - by the 17th century there were two churches in it. Povarskaya Street was previously, from the 12th century, the ancient Volotsk road leading to Volokolamsk and Novgorod, and served not only as a trade route, but also as a kind of “government route”. Ivan III used it to return from Novgorod to Moscow in 1471, and Ivan IV the Terrible in 1572.
The name of the temple of Simeon the Stylite is associated with the name of Boris Godunov, who got married on the feast day of this saint and probably ordered a wooden temple to be erected here (and not only here) in his honor and in memory of his wedding.
At the end of the 17th century, a new one, made of large bricks, began to be built on the site of the wooden temple. The small building is made in the Russian pattern style, with five domes, a refectory, a bell tower and two chapels, each with a separate apse and dome. The main altar of the temple is Vvedensky, and the chapels are in the name of Simeon the Stylite and Nicholas the Wonderworker, the latter in 1759. was re-consecrated in the name of Demetrius of Rostov. The chapels adjoin the originally lower refectory, which was later raised in the vaults and extended in length from the west, slightly “hugging” the open first tier of the bell tower.
The exterior decoration of the church is simple and at the same time allows it to look very elegant. This is primarily achieved thanks to the upper part of the main volume with rows of kokoshniks and patterned drums under the small onions of the domes. Echoing them is the openwork tent of the bell tower with arched openings and two rows of “hearing” windows framed by platbands. On the bell tower there were bells cast by the master Fyodor Dmitrievich Motorin (1630 - 1688), the founder of the famous dynasty of foundry workers (lost in the 1930s). Under the rows of kokoshniks there is a wide carved frieze. The drums of the side chapels are also lavishly decorated. As was the case with many “fire” churches (the quadrangle of which was decorated with rows of kokoshniks), the tiered roof of the Temple of Simeon the Stylite was replaced with a simpler and more practical hipped roof, and was restored only during restoration in 1966.
The temple was popular among the Moscow intelligentsia as a wedding venue. But even before such a tradition appeared here in 1801. One of the most famous and sensational weddings took place - Count Nikolai Petrovich Sheremetev and actress Praskovya Ivanovna Zhemchugova-Kovaleva. The wedding was secret, although it still caused a lot of noise in high society. Here in 1816 The writer Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov and Olga Semyonovna Zaplatina got married. In addition to two famous couples, which certainly appear in the description of the temple, here in December 1918. Mikhail Bulgakov's future wife, Elena Sergeevna Nyurenberg, married Yuri Mamontovich Neelov, the son of the artist Mamont Dalsky and adjutant to the commander of the 16th Army of the Red Army. And two years later she separated from Neelov and married Evgeniy Aleksandrovich Shilovsky (the prototype of Margarita’s husband from Bulgakov’s famous novel). A parishioner of the Church of Simeon the Stylite on Povarskaya in the last years of his life was N.V. Gogol, who then lived in the Tolstoy house on Nikitsky Boulevard. The priest of the church gave communion to the dying writer in February 1852.
After the revolution, the church was closed in 1930. actually scrapped. They demolished the beautiful fence and dismantled some of the parts of the church itself. Dilapidated, it reached the decision to build a new Moscow highway - Kalinin Avenue on the site of the former Tsar's Krechetnaya Sloboda. Initially, the church, which did not fit into the row of new buildings made of glass and concrete, was going to be demolished, but through incredible efforts of the public it was saved. In 1966 restoration began, the original shape of the roof was restored, even the domes were decorated with crosses, which were almost immediately cut off with an autogenous gun by order of the higher authorities. In 1968 The temple building was given to the All-Russian Society for Nature Conservation, and it housed an exhibition hall of small animals and birds: guinea pigs, white rats, parrots, canaries, etc. Soon the small building was completely saturated with the smell of manure. The interiors of the temple were completely destroyed. Fortunately, animals were kept here for a short time - by the 1990s. Exhibitions of paintings and folk art were held in the temple.
In 1990 crosses were again placed on the heads of the temple (by order of the deputy chairman of the Moscow City Executive Committee, Matrosov). In 1992 The Church of Simeon the Stylite was again handed over to the believers and re-painted by young artists. It turned out that the temple icon of St. Simeon the Stylite, which was kept by the parishioners, had survived from the previous decoration. And now, against the background of the skyscrapers of New Arbat, which have turned gray with time, there is a small, but not aging white church...
