Abstract
In the first half of 1680s Lazar Baranovich, archbishop of Chernigov asked the Russian government to cast a bell for Saint Trinity Church, that he was building. The government of prince Vasilij Golitsyn and princess Sofia agreed to do it at state costs. But it appeared in short time that envoy of Lazar Baranovich in Moscow wished to have the heavier one, so a such bell was taken away from the church of Gregory of Neocaesarea in Polyanka and sent to Chernigov. The bell, specially made for the archbishop was left in Moscow and nowadays it hangs in the bell tower of Saint Basil’s Cathedral in the Red square. Besides Lazar Baranovich, Ivan Samojlovich, the hetman of the Left-Bank Ukraine, also was inspired by the high level of the Russian bell manufacture in the last quarter of 17th century and ordered a bell for another monastery of Chernigov.