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{|align="right" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin-left:1em" |-valign="top" |thumb|150px|Church of the Theotokos of Kazan (1698-1704) |thumb|180px|The manor house (1880s) |} Uzkoe () is a historic estate in the southwestern part of Moscow. Before 1629, the area belonged to Prince Gagarin, then it passed to Maksim Streshnev, a cousin of Tsarina Eudoxia Streshneva.

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{|align="right" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin-left:1em" |-valign="top" |thumb|150px|Church of the Theotokos of Kazan (1698-1704) |thumb|180px|The manor house (1880s) |} Uzkoe () is a historic estate in the southwestern part of Moscow. Before 1629, the area belonged to Prince Gagarin, then it passed to Maksim Streshnev, a cousin of Tsarina Eudoxia Streshneva.

Upon the death of Maksim's grandson in 1692, the ownership passed sideways to a cousin, Tikhon Streshnev. It was he who commissioned a singular five-domed church to be built there in 1698-1704. Its four-petaled plan was of Ukrainian Baroque inspiration; but all five towers are equal in height and crowned by typical Russian onion domes. This five-towered church, dedicated to the Theotokos of Kazan, is quite extraordinary in Russian architecture. Its design is attributed to Osip Startsev, who was responsible for some of the major Baroque cathedrals of Kyiv but also worked in Moscow.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Uzkoye” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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