Cathedral in the name of St. Alexander Nevsky on the Miuses
Today marks 150 years since the signing of the Manifesto on the abolition of serfdom on February 19 (March 3, NS), 1861.
In 1904, in memory of the liberation of peasants from serfdom by Emperor Alexander II, a cathedral was laid in Moscow in the name of St. Alexander Nevsky.
Photo from the end of the 1910s.
Alexander Nevsky Cathedral on Miusskaya Square. The second largest historical temple in Moscow after the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.
The cathedral was built according to the project of Alexander Pomerantsev and Viktor Vasnetsov. Its height was 70 meters. The temple was founded in the presence of Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna. The construction of the temple slowed down the outbreak of the First World War.
Nevertheless, by 1917 the gigantic 21-domed cathedral was already almost completely completed. Only finishing work remained. It was able to accommodate over six thousand people. The temple was pillarless, there was not a single pillar inside.
In the 1920s, it was going to be converted into a crematorium or ... into a radio center. Or-or, yeah. I especially like the idea of a crematorium ... the giant Moloch ... We remember how Comrade I. V. Drozhzhin, chairman of the trade union of communal workers, declared that "The working class, as advanced, called to reorganize the old society, in the matter of burning the dead will also be among the first customers of the crematorium, and will drag the rest along with them"
The project was not implemented. Under the crematorium, the church of St. Seraphim of Sarov and Anna of Kashinsky in the Donskoy Monastery was rebuilt.
The abandoned building on the Miusy was dilapidated, but survived until the 1950s, when it was almost completely demolished and part of the foundations and using old brick in 1960 the House of Pioneers of the Frunzensky District of Moscow was built (now it is the Palace of Creativity for Children and Youth on Miusy).
Surprisingly, almost no photographs of the temple have been preserved. The little that was found is under the cut.
Cathedral of St. Alexander Nevsky on Miusy. Drawing from the Iskra magazine (1904)
Photo taken in 1904 by L. Bakulina.
September 19, 1904
In Moscow, on Miusskaya Square, the laying of a church in the name of St. Alexander Nevsky took place in memory of the liberation of the peasantry. A photograph of this event, taken by chronicler L. Bakulin, was published in a magazine.
Photo taken in 1904 by L. Bakulina. Laying of the temple in the name of St. Alexander Nevsky on Miusy.
Later, the square in front of the cathedral under construction received the unpronounceable name "Named on February 19, 1861". This name lasted until the early 1930s.
Frame from the film “Third Meshchanskaya” (“Love in three”), 1927.
And that's it... I haven't seen any more photos of the temple... Maybe someone has? Share! It cannot be that at least in the 50s. nobody took pictures of the ruins.
Here are its remains in the panorama still visible:
Photo 1954-1955 from the archive of A. Zadikyan. Panorama fragment.
And this is the former House of Pioneers of the Frunzensky district of Moscow on the site of the former Cathedral: 
Photo from the early 1970s.
Photo taken in 1979 by P. Palamarchuk.
Modern photographs of the square can be viewed, for example,.
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