Sampsonievsky cathedral s destiny: between state and church

Relations between temples converted to museums and museums where icons are being stored, on the one hand, and Russian Orthodox Church, on the other, have become a subject of fierce disputes. Detailed analysis of any existing relations of the kind is necessary as it allows to find better ways of further interaction between museum and church. Conflict between church and museum based on property disagreements is a peculiar problem both in Russia, and in the other countries which experienced the influence of the Soviet power. The policy of fruitful coexistence of a museum and an operating temple has been approved in the Sampsonievsky cathedral - a unique historic and architectural monument of the first half of XVIII century.