The All-Merciful Savior church is notable for Feodor Chaliapin's wedding, while Our Lady of Kazan church (colloquially called "Kazanskaya") annually serves as an offstage for the Chaliapin festival.
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The film by Dmitriy Stepanov a film director from nearby Sergiyev Posad was dedicated to Chaliapin's wedding and a joyful party which followed the ceremony at the couple friend's villa in Putyatino few kilometers from Gagino.
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The idea of the fesival has been inspired by the story of Chaliapin's marriage with a young Italian ballerina Iola Tornagi in Gagino's church of All-Merciful Savior on July 27, 1898.
Launched on July 2002 to commemorate the remarkable wedding, the festival was at first an amateur concert of locals.