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Postnik Yakovlev (Russian: Постник Яковлев; born 16th century in Pskov) was a Russian architect best known as one of the builders of the Saint Basil's Cathedral on Red Square in Moscow (built between 1555 and 1560, the other architect is Barma). It is thought that he was nicknamed "Barma" (Барма) ("the mumbler"), although it ...
Tradition held that the church was built by two architects, Barma and Postnik: [18] [19] the official Russian cultural heritage register lists "Barma and Postnik Yakovlev". [1] Researchers proposed that both names refer to the same person, Postnik Yakovlev [19] or, alternatively, Ivan Yakovlevich Barma (Varfolomey). [18]
Ivan Barma (Иван Барма), together with Postnik Yakovlev, was probably one of the architects and builders of Saint Basil's Cathedral on Red Square in Moscow (built between 1555 and 1560). [ citation needed ]
Ivan Barma and Postnik Yakovlev were among the most popular architects of the church. From the completion of the cathedral to the relocation of Russia's capital from Moscow to Saint Petersburg, it remained the most important church in the city and the venue for solemn services on all major Orthodox festivals.
Ivan's reign was characterised by Russia's transformation from a medieval state to a fledgling empire, but at an immense cost to its people and long-term economy. Ivan IV was the eldest son of Vasili III by his second wife Elena Glinskaya, and a grandson of Ivan III. He succeeded his father after his death, when he was three years old.
Barma is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Aarif Barma (born 1959), Hong Kong judge, and a Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of Hong Kong; Catherine Barma (born 1945), French television producer; Claude Barma (1918–1992), French-Italian director and screenwriter, and an early creator of French television programmes
Ivan Yakovlev contributed to the establishing of Chuvash and other national schools in the Volga region. He was the one to create special instruction methods based on Konstantin Ushinsky’s pedagogical legacy. In the early 1870s, Ivan Yakovlev put together a new Chuvash alphabet, wrote several primers and textbooks based on the Russian alphabet.
The most famous example of this type of a church is the Church of St. Ivan of the Ladder adjacent to the Ivan the Great Bell Tower in the Moscow Kremlin. [20] [21] Anbur script The alphabet was introduced by a Russian missionary, Stepan Khrap, also known as Saint Stephen of Perm (Степан Храп, св. Стефан Пермский) in 1372.