Optical illusion

The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross at Chisty Vrazhek superimposed onto steam from a power water heating station. The church is built on the edge of a ravine running into the Moscow River. It was raised variously in the common passage from wooden to stone structure between 1658 and 1701. In early days, the parish, being on the city outskirts, comprised mostly "household servants, artisans and soldiers", but also several nobles and notables. One notable noble was Platon Ivanovich Musin-Pushkin who, arrested in 1740 for an attempt to overthrow the government, had his tongue cut out (apparently common practice in those days) and was sent into exile on Solovetsky Island. Which, in reality, meant 'goodbye forever'. In a nobler context, another notable, the writer Anton Chekhov, got married here in 1901.