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The Cathedral of the Dormition, Moscow Kremlin (east façade, winter). Northern door. In the 14th century, Metropolitan Peter persuaded Ivan I (Ivan Kalita) that he should build a cathedral to the Theotokos (Blessed Virgin Mary) in Moscow like the Cathedral of the Dormition in the capital city Vladimir.
Saint Basil's Cathedral, Red Square, Moscow; Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Moscow, tallest Orthodox Christian church in the world; Dormition Cathedral, Moscow; Saint Sophia Church, Moscow, Balchug Island, Moscow; All-Merciful Savior Church (Gagino), near Moscow; Holy Field, near Moscow; Orekhovo-Borisovo Metochion, in Orekhovo-Borisovo, near ...
The cathedral was commissioned by the Grand Prince of Vladimir, Andrew the Pious (r. 1157–1174), in his capital, Vladimir, and dedicated to the Dormition of the Mother of God (Virgin Mary), whom Andrew promoted as the patron saint of his lands. Originally erected between 1158 and 1160, the cathedral, with six pillars and five domes, was ...
The cathedral is dedicated to the Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary and was built as the principal church of the Russian state. In 1326, the first Moscow Metropolitan Peter ordered the quarters to be relocated from Vladimir to Moscow. A new building was constructed in 1479 by decree of Grand Prince of Russia Ivan III.
Cathedral Square in Moscow, a veduta by Quarenghi, 1797. Cathedral Square or Sobornaya Square (Russian: Соборная площадь, romanized: Sobornaya ploshchad) is the central square of the Moscow Kremlin where all of its streets used to converge in the 15th century. [1]
The Cathedral of the Dormition (1475–1479), Moscow. The first Italian architects arrived in Moscow in 1475. A Russian envoy to Italy during Ivan III's reign, Semion Tolbuzin, managed to recruit the Bolognese architect Aristotele Fioravanti (1420–85), as well as his son and an assistant.
Dionisius's first recorded works are the frescos in the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in the Pafnutyev-Borovsky Monastery (1466–1467). [4] His first important commission was a series of icons for the Cathedral of the Dormition in the Moscow Kremlin, executed in 1481. [4]
Dormition Cathedral in Moscow. Ridolfo "Aristotele" Fioravanti (also spelled Fieraventi; Russian: Аристотель Фиораванти; [a] c. 1415 – c. 1486) [1] was an Italian Renaissance architect and engineer. He was active in Moscow from 1475, where he designed the Dormition Cathedral during 1475–1479.