Although there have been several versions of the St Nicholas' Church at Kotelniki, the current version was built in the empire style between 1822 and 1824 under a project by the architect Osip Bove. In form it is a cube structure topped with a rotunda and attached to a small bell tower. The church's facades are decorated with bas-reliefs depicting scenes from the bible. In 1932 the church was closed and turned into a laboratory. In 1992 it was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church and in 1998 became the podvorye (embassy church) of the Orthodox Church of Czech Lands and Slovakia.