Tserkov' Georgiya Pobedonostsa Na Torgu

It has a fresco paintings exposition, and in the basement a museum, beautiful facade like almost all the churches here in this city.

The temple, the beginning of the history of which is dated 1356, in its external features does not have traces of antiquity since it was completely rebuilt in 1750-1754. But it is interesting in that it has the character of a "dig", i.e. has deepening at the base, as if being in a pit. I believe this was done in the mid-1970s during active archaeological research. According to various sources, the temple was not badly damaged during wartime, but by the mid-1950s all the extensions were pulled into bricks. The interior is lost. Since the 1980s, there has been a souvenir shop, now an exposition of fragments of ancient frescoes from various temples of the Novgorod region is located.

The Church of the Transfiguration (Savior on Kovalev) was restored in such a way that it does not allow the murals to be collected, the exhibition of restored frescoes from this church is not in it, but in another church located in Veliky Novgorod itself. This is the Church of the Great Martyr George at the auction, located next to the Yaroslav yard. Previously, there was a trading area, that is, the territory of trade (market). It is not known when the church was first built on this site, but according to the annals in 1356, "in the summer of 6865, the Lubianica church was placed to the stone of St. George, in the same place where the wooden one stood to the right." The church has survived to our time in a number of times rebuilt. From the original construction fragmentary masonry to a height of several tiers remained. Now the lower part of the church is cleared of age-old deposits, the facades below are exposed from plaster and you can see the masonry. When, as a result of perestroika, the church acquired a modern look, it is unknown. It is generally believed that now it belongs to the style of the early provincial baroque of the late 17th - early 18th centuries ("Naryshkin baroque"). It is known that in 1747 the upper arches collapsed and in 1750-1754 it was restored. Some consider 1754 to be the year of baroque reconstruction, but the surviving data indicate only the repair after the collapse, but not what the repair was like. Now the church is a pillarless (it has no columns), single-aisle, single-domed construction of the octagon on quadruple type (the lower tier is in the form of a cube and the upper is in the form of an octagon, which immediately catches your eye), with a subchurch (such a basement in the first tier). Facades with shovels and pilasters. The windows are decorated with platbands. Previously, the church had several chapels and a bell tower, which were preserved in good condition and were dismantled into bricks only in 1952 during the "restoration" work. It is not clear what kind of restoration it is when the buildings are destroyed. Apparently, it was from them that the laying of the foundation remained, adjacent to the church from all four sides. The Great Martyr George Church at the auction was one of the last two churches operating in Novgorod and closed it just before the start of the war. During the war, she was not very seriously affected, but perhaps some damage was caused during the Soviet era before the war. For example, it is believed that the dome and drum (which were not in 1944) were dismantled before the war. Now the church is inactive and exhibit museum exhibits. Inside, it represents a single large whole space without any partitions with white plastered walls. Now there is the exposition "Revived Murals". The frescoes were restored after destruction during the war (we note that even before the 20th century the frescoes were whitened, some of them suffered during the fires) and it is clear that they no longer give a complete picture of their original appearance, rather large losses are visible. But the work done by the restorers was colossal (the frescoes of the Savior on Kovalev were declared irrevocably dead). Plots of frescoes on religious topics. They themselves are quite large in size, in height of human growth. Although the frescoes were whitened, and then damaged, and lay in the ground unassembled in the form of a pile of stones for twenty years, they did not lose the brightness of the colors. They do not look chubby and very tarnished, having lost their color. They look generally beautiful. Murals have been restored since 1965 for more than fifty years bit by bit, while based on the total area of ​​the painting, about half of the available murals are still in the process of restoration.

Initially, the church was completely wooden, so it burned to the ground several times. After a couple of centuries, it was rebuilt in a stone version. During the post-war restoration, the bell tower and all extensions were deprived, since then it has been in its present form.

In the temple there is a museum exposition of frescoes, which the masters restore from the ruins remaining at the site of destruction during the war.