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  2. Palladium (protective image) - Wikipedia

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    The Theotokos of Vladimir, tempera on panel, 104 x 69 cm, painted c. 1130 in Constantinople, and protectress of Vladimir and later Moscow. A palladium or palladion (plural palladia) is an image or other object of great antiquity on which the safety of a city or nation is said to depend.

  3. Palladium (classical antiquity) - Wikipedia

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    The arrival at Troy of the Palladium, fashioned by Athena [5] in remorse for the death of Pallas, [6] as part of the city's founding myth, was variously referred to by Greeks, from the seventh century BC onwards.

  4. City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto

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    Site Image Description Arco delle Scalette: Arch built in 1596, whose design is attributed to Palladio, about 1575. It is located in the south-eastern border of the historic center of the city of Vicenza, and it was the only point of access from the city to the sanctuary of Monte Berico.

  5. Andrea Palladio - Wikipedia

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    Andrea Palladio (/ p ə ˈ l ɑː d i oʊ / pə-LAH-dee-oh; Italian: [anˈdrɛːa palˈlaːdjo]; Venetian: Andrea Paładio; 30 November 1508 – 19 August 1580) was an Italian Renaissance architect active in the Venetian Republic.

  6. Vladimir Palace - Wikipedia

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    The Vladimir Palace (Russian: Влади́мирский дворе́ц, Vladimirsky dvorets) is the former palace of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia, son of Alexander II. It was one of the last imperial palaces to be constructed in Saint Petersburg , Russia .

  7. Vsevolod the Big Nest - Wikipedia

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    Vsevolod was the tenth or eleventh son of Yuri Dolgoruky (c. 1099 – 1157), who founded the town Dmitrov to commemorate the site of Vsevolod's birth. Nikolai Karamzin (1766 – 1826) initiated the speculation identifying Vsevolod's mother Helene as a Greek princess, because after her husband's death she took Vsevolod with her to Constantinople.

  8. Grand Kremlin Palace - Wikipedia

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    Kremlin Palace and churches, early 1920s. The Grand Kremlin Palace was built between 1837 and 1849 to serve as the tsar's Moscow residence, on the site of the estate of the Grand Princes, which had been established in the 14th century on Borovitsky Hill; its construction involved the demolition of the previous Baroque palace on the site, designed by Rastrelli, and the 16th century Church of St ...

  9. Conversion of Vladimir the Great - Wikipedia

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    German bishop Thietmar of Merseburg (c. 1015) described Volodimer as 'an immense fornicator' (Latin: fornicator immensus) until his marriage to a 'decent wife from Greece' (Latin: a Grecia decens uxorem) and adoption 'of the holy faith of Christianity at her instigation' (Latin: christianitatis sanctae fidem eius ortatu suscepit). [4]