Tsarevich Dimitri's Church on the Blood

At the end of the 16th century, Uglich found itself in the center of a political struggle for the royal throne. On May 15, 1591, Tsarevich Dimitri, the youngest son of Tsar Ivan the Terrible, died in the Kremlin garden under mysterious circumstances.

Tsarevich Dimitry's Church on the blood is the second oldest monument in the Kremlin. According to legend, it was placed at the place of the death of the prince. 15 years after those tragic events, that is, in 1606, Dimitri was canonized. Then a wooden chapel was erected at the place of his death, and in 1630 a wooden tent church was built. The construction of the existing monument probably began between 1681 and 1683. The construction was carried out with royal donations, and in 1690 it came under the patronage of Princess Anna Vasilyevna Cherkasskaya, a relative of Tsarina Maria Naga. In 1692, the stone church was completed and consecrated.

The church has a unique memorial and exhibition complex "Shrines and relics of the Uglich tragedy": a mica lantern, a stretcher and a shrine in which the relics of the tsarevich were transferred to Moscow in 1606, photocopies of the Uglich investigative file, etc.