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Orthodox Church of St. Parasceve
According to legends, in 1345, Maria, the wife of the Grand Duke Algirdas, initiated the construction of an orthodox church, also known as the Church of the Martyr of the 3rd century St Parasceve, in the place where a pagan temple to the God Ragutis once stood. After being destroyed in a fire, a new church was built at the end of the 16th century. The Russian czar Peter I (Peter the Great) visited the church in 1705 and 1708 and presented to it flags taken from the Swedish array. His African protege, Hannibal, who was later made a general and married a noble Russian, was baptized in this church during the visit of the Czar. The talented Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin was Hannibal's grandchild. The present church was built in 1865 according to the project of Nikolay Chagin. It is a Lithuanian orthodox parish.
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