December 19, the first president of Kalmykia, the sixth president of FIDE Kirsan Ilyumzhinov congratulated everyone on St. Nicholas Day.Currently I am on the Rozhdestvenka st, 15 in front of the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Zvonary in Moscow. In 1996, together with His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II and Moscow Mayor Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov, we restored this Church.”
Editors’ note. The Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Zvonary (Church of St. Nicholas of Bozhedomsky) is an Orthodox church, known since the beginning of the 17th century. It was rebuilt in 1762-1781 according to the project of the architect Karl Blanca at the expense of Senator Ivan Vorontsov. In 1933, the church was closed. It was reopened as the Moscow metochion of the Pyukhtitsky Nunnery in 1994.
