Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An rufe cocin tare da sauran makabartar a 1923, kuma na ɗan lokaci ya zama ɗakunan ajiya don adana abubuwan tarihi da kaburburan da aka kawo daga wasu makabarta da ake rushewa. Tare da kafa gidan kayan gargajiya na necropolis a cikin 1932, an sake fasalin ciki na cocin sosai. An rushe iconostasis kuma an fentin bango da rufi. An cire yawancin gumaka, ko da yake an riƙe abubuwa masu yawa na tarihi. Tare da rushewar Cocin Dukhovskaya na Lavra a cikin 1937, an tura wasu abubuwan tarihi zuwa gidan kayan gargajiya, kuma a cikin fewan shekarun da suka gabata an tura ragowar shahararrun mutane na tarihi kuma an binne su a cikin Cocin St. Lazarus, gami da; Yarima Ioane na Georgia, Viktor Kochubey da Ekaterina Ilyinichna Kutuzova, matar Mikhail Kutuzov. An kawo wasu abubuwan tarihi daga Cocin Feodorovskaya Lavra, da Cocin Armeniya na Smolensky da kuma Cocin Katolika a Tsarskoye Selo. Ragowar Count, surukin Decembrist
An sake binne Yarima Sergei Petrovich Trubetskoy a cikin cocin, amma ba a taɓa shigar da abin tunawa ba.