THE CHAPEL OF THE BOIMS
The chapel was one of Nicholas’s favorite places in the city. It was quite small and probably could fit just a few dozen people at one time. It was built in 1609-1615 by Georgy Boim, a Hungarian businessman who had moved to the city and who had converted from Lutheranism to Catholicism. It was meant as a private chapel next to the family graveyard. The relatives of Boims buried there might have been among some of those graves that had been moved, the spirits that were troubling Ivan the Ghostseer, but Nicholas wasn’t sure about that. The chapel’s soot blackened bas-reliefs from the front were its most impressive feature from the outside. Something you don’t normally see on a church, and there were portraits of Georgy Boim and his wife on the back outside wall of th
