The complex of the chapels of the Kazan Temple’s parish in Zaozerje village, as an example of the influence of the Calvary construction tradition in Europe

The article is devoted to the chapel phenomenon in the village of Zaozyor'ye, Uglich district, Yaroslavl Region, Russia; there the parish of the temple of Our Lady of Kazan used to include about two dozen of chapel structures. The main attention of this article is paid to the collection of lost information about all the chapels of the complex, the consecration of chapels, ceremonies and traditions, associated with them. There are no similar complexes in Russia. The article attempts to search for their analogues on the nearest territory abroad. In this regard, the author examines the large chapel complexes in Poland, known as calvaries (dedicated to Golgotha). In fact, calvaries are kind of spacial markers of some of the scenes of Pashion of the Christ, e.g. him carrying the cross. Some of the European calvaries are devoted exclusively to Mother of God. Seeing an obvious similarity with the European calvaries, dedicated to Virgin Mary, the author comes to the conclusion that in the neighbourhood of Zaozyor'ye there was a local tradition of worshipping Mother of God, which was originally closely related to the mineral spring "Plotnitsy".