The first Orthodox Church of the Nerchinsky Fortress
The study is dedicated to the first Orthodox Church of Nerchinsky Fortress, which was consecrated "in the name of the Resurrection of Christ" in the second half of the XVII century. It is established that the fundamental document for the construction of the church was the royal decree of 1654 to the Daurian voivoda Afanasy Filippovich Pashkov. It defined the layout of the temple - the construction of the church with two aisles, determined the names of saints in whose honor it was planned to consecrate these aisles. On the basis of the analysis of the administrative documentation of Nerchinsky and Albazinsky Fortresses, the year of completion of the church construction was determined and the unreasonableness of the previously accepted dating was shown. It is proved that the construction of the aisles of the church was carried out and completed simultaneously with its main volume. Possible reasons for the failure to fully comply with the Tsar's order to build the church were stated. The 1669 inventory of church utensils and books required to complete the church is published. The surviving images of the church from the books of I. Ides in1704, N. Vitsen «Noord en Oost Tartarye» in 1705, S. Remezov's «Chertezhnaia kniga Sibiri» (Drawing Book of Siberia) in 1701 and engraving "View of the city of Nerchinsk" 1770 are presented. Based on the analysis of these images, the architectural composition of the church is reconstructed.