Next to the main architectural ensemble - Kizhi Pogost - there is a unique in its simplicity and antiquity, the Church of the Resurrection of Lazarus. A miniature building next to the huge church of Kizhi symbolizes the path that the iconic architecture took from the sources to the majestic creations of wooden architecture of the 17th and 18th centuries.

One of the most ancient Russian wooden religious buildings,preserved to this day - Lazarevskaya church of the former MuromMonastery, located on the south-eastern shore of Lake Onega. According to legend, the church was built in the XIV century. monk Lazar, the founder of the monastery. In time it became one of the main monastic shrines. Among the locals, she was known as a "miraculous healer of ills". In the summer, a lot of pilgrims gathered in Ivanov's day. The Monk Lazar was declared a local saint.

In 1919 on the territory of the former Murom Holy Assumption Monastery was organized agricultural communism. Trotsky. After 1945 there is the maintenance of the house of the disabled. In 1954, architect A. V. Opolovnikov developed a restoration project for the church, in which a small iconostasis of the 16th century was preserved. (the royal gates with the Deesis ranks). In 1959 the church was dismantledand tied up in rafts were transported to Kizhi, where it was rebuilt in 1960. ATCurrently located on the territory of the Historical and Architectural MuseumKizhi.