Two annexes on the south: a porch and a sacristy. The tower, damaged by lightning, was completed with a dome. Weathervane of 1796. Height including the flagpole, 28.5 m. The tower has two buttresses. The nave measured 22.6 x 10.4 metres. In 1882 windows were cut into its north side, and the windows on the south side were bricked up. Inside, the nave consisted of three bays with sixteen-part star vaults. The chancel with four buttresses had an octagonal end. The triumphal arch measures 14.5 x 6.9 metres; it is a slender Gothic arch. The chancel had a wooden ceiling. Altar of the 17th century. Church plate of the 17th–18th centuries. Pulpit of the 17th century. Organ by von Casparini, 1734. The church had three bells, of 1736, 1815 and 1869.
If you climb the north wing of Schaaken Castle in the settlement of Nekrasovo, the church tower can be clearly seen a kilometre and a half to the south-east, in Zhemchuzhnoye.
After the fighting of 1945 the church remained whole and undamaged. But lack of supervision and repair caused the tiles to fall and the structure to deteriorate. By 1966 the dome of the tower was tilting because of rotten rafters and, to avoid an accident, it was removed. In the 1970s a new roof covered with slate was built, and the church was used as a storehouse. A square gateway was cut into the tower.
Today the church is a roofless shell with collapsed vaults and ruined annexes. Inside, the pointed arch separating the chancel from the nave has survived. On the north side of the church, on the site of the old German cemetery, there is a modern cemetery. To the south stands the intact building of the German school. Very few houses have survived in the settlement.
Photos on this page: Bildarchiv Ostpreußen, bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de, Mikhail Ogorodnikov (2020)
Translated from Russian with the help of AI (Claude, Anthropic), October 2026.
