The Cathedral of Christ the Savior near the Borki Station

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Back in 1891–1894, a church was built in the village of Borki near Kharkiv, on the site of the imperial train crash.

The design for the Cathedral of Christ the Savior was developed by architect Robert Robertovich Marfeld. It was designed to accommodate 1,400 people. A local factory owner, I. Voronin, covered all the construction costs himself.

During World War II, the church was destroyed.

10613091_1599943943556277_1455312982863440442_n — The Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Borki

However, the story of the Borki Church does not end there.

The thing is:

1) Vasily Kosyakov, the architect of the Church of the Epiphany (consecrated on April 29, 1899) on Gutuevsky Island in St. Petersburg, made no secret of the fact that he had based his design on Marfeld’s plan for the Borkovsky Church;
2) The architect of St. Sophia Cathedral in Harbin (China), M. M. Oskolkov, in the 1920s, used the design of the Church of the Epiphany (Gutuevskaya) in St. Petersburg by Vasily Kosyakov, whom we are already familiar with. As we already know, Kosyakov, in turn, based his design on our Borki Church…