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Tikhvin Temple. Kungur city, Perm region, Russia. #111950774
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Theotokos of Tikhvin Church is located in Kungur city. The Tikhvinskaya church was built for the money of the citizens. There is a legend related to the Tikhvinskaya church and the icon of Holy Mother, it says about wonderful intervention of the Virgin in the battle between Yemelyan Pugachev`s army and Kungur troops in 1774. In January the most furious assault started. The citizens of Kungur went out to defend their city under a banner of the Tikhvin icon of Divine Mother. Pugachev`s people saw this mass of people, got afraid and withdrew.
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