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The foundation of the monastery was laid in 1603. At first, the buildings of the Cathedral were wooden, due to the great availability of material in those years. But after numerous fires, it was decided to replace the wooden structures of the Cathedral with stone ones. On August 22, 1723, the foundation of the stone Cathedral was laid, and its lighting took place on March 22, 1735. Miraculous shrines – the Georgian and Vladimir icons of the Mother of God, a lot of fires, a generous donation from Empress Anna Ioanovna, all kinds of reforms - led to ruin, seizure of all property and closure. This is the past and partly the real life of the Krasnogorsk Monastery.

Monument of urban planning and architecture of federal significance.

Arkhangelsk region, Pinezhsky district, village Red Hill.

It was placed under state protection in accordance with the Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR "On further improvement of the protection of cultural monuments in the RSFSR" dated August 30, 1960 No. 1327.

The registration number in the unified State Register of Cultural Heritage objects is 291610526610006.

The tiered composition of the "eight on four" type, characteristic of the Baroque era, was fully manifested in the architecture of the main volume of the temple and in the cathedral bell tower. The stone cathedral is built in 4 truncated tiers. The first lower tier forms a column-less two-light quad. The second tier is also a quad placed on it, on top of it a powerful octagon, overlapping with a closed vault on a faceted base, in the central part of which there was a round hole of a light drum under a low closed vault with a curved shape of the coating. The drum was crowned with a small bulbous head. From the west, a pentahedral apse overlapped with a closed semicircle adjoins the main cubic volume, from the east – a spacious one-story refectory covered with two slopes, followed by a four–tiered bell tower. The bell tower is a harmonious construction of two octagons on two quads. The lower tier of the bell tower is the narthex of the temple. The library and the monastery archive were located in the second tier of the quadrangle. The bell tower ended with an octagonal belfry with a domed faceted roof topped with a high spire on a small drum.

On the south side, a side chapel of the warm temple is attached to the refectory. In the XIX century, a small difference was added to this limit and to the lower tier of the bell tower. The temple of the Krasnogorsk Monastery is distinguished by a single style, formed by the Baroque decor of the first quarter of the XVIII century. Nevertheless, the echo of the XVII century is manifested here in the three-part division of facades, in the perspective slopes of windows and in the platbands ending with kokoshniks. The cathedral is built of brick with a fence with iron ties. The exterior walls are dotted in places with fronts, cornices in the form of a belt with teeth and pilasters made of brick, whitewashed. The windows are not wide, not the same size, oblong. The variety of decorative window framing here is justified by the division of the building into tiers. Window openings in the second tier of the quadrangle are crowned with zakomars.

From the western outside at the entrance to the porch – one door is blind-mortar, 2 halves and above it a semicircular window. On the north side of the lower tier there is one blind door, divided into two halves. The rest of the doors are wooden, with platbands and cornices.

The roof on the church and on all parts of it on wooden rafters made of sheet iron. There are triangular pediments on the roof, above the openings of the 2nd tier. Painted in 1885 with copper oil. Under the roof of the church and under the roof of all four tiers, pipes made of sheet iron are arranged for water drainage and painted with copper oil. The architecture of the "Cathedral of the Krasnogorsk Bogorodsky Monastery" shows a harmonious combination of traditional Russian three-dimensional composition with elements of the new Baroque style.