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Chapel of Saint Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow (Moscow)

Serpukhovskoy Zastavy Square, Moscow, Metro station: "Tulskaya".

The Chapel belongs to the St. Daniel's Monastery. It was built sometime before 1722 and rebuilt in 1784 and 1869. After 1920, the Chapel stayed in ruins. It was reconstructed in 1998 by the architects Yu. Antonov and D. Sokolov. The Chapel was consecrated on 17 March 1998.

Vladimir Kusov, a professor at Moscow State University, found a record in archives showing that the Chapel's wall used to contain a geodetic marker, which had been laid in 1877; he proposed to reconstruct the marker.

In the 1870s, the Moscow State University of Geography and Cartography (then the Konstantin Surveying Institute) created a geodetic levelling network, consisting of over 2,000 markers. The network was created, in the first place, to support construction of water conduits, sewers and hydraulic structures.

After the 1917 Russian Revolution, these markers were not used and forgotten, while a new geodetic network was created in the 1920s and the 1930s from scratch. However, in the early 2000s a small part of the old markers (only about 15 of them) were discovered and reintegrated into the city's network. By the way, many markers were taken out of walls by some "lovers of the antiques" who, apparently, had no idea what these objects were. For this reason, we shouldn't make public the addresses of the places where the markers are kept.

The Chapel's marker is an equilateral triangle made of metal and containing a horizontal cut and stamped digits. The digits denote the following: 1877 is, of course, the year of installation; 2210 is the marker's serial number; 7.77, which is the most interesting one, is the height of the cut (in traditional Russian sazhens, no longer used; one sazhen is equal to 2.134 metres or 7 feet) with respect to the river gauge installed opposite the St. Daniel's Monastery, on the waterline of the Moscow River. Of course, the gauge ceased to exist many years ago, and nobody even knows which side of the Chapel the marker was installed on. Nevertheless, it has been possible to determine the height where the marker used to stand, thanks to new measurements based on those few markers that have survived. For this, it is enough to multiply 7.77 by 2.1336 (the number of metres in 1 sazhen) and then to add a constant, the Moscow River's waterline, calculated based on the new measurements. This way we obtain the mark of the marker in the Baltic Altitude System, which is currently in use in Russia. In order to reconstruct the marker, this mark had to be put on the Chapel's wall, followed by the marker's installation on the marked point.

Professor Kusov approached the Moscow City Trust for Geologic, Geodesic and Cartographic Works (also known as the Mosgorgeotrest Company), which did this kind of works, with a request to produce the marker and to lay it into the Chapel's wall; and on 24 August 2004 this was accomplished.

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Chapel of Saint Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow



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