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The Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed (Russian: Собор Василия Блаженного, romanized: Sobor Vasiliya Blazhennogo), known in English as Saint Basil's Cathedral, is an Orthodox church in Red Square of Moscow, and is one of the most popular cultural symbols of Russia.
Moscow Oblast: 1479-1696 Kolomna Kremlin: Коломенский кремль Moscow Oblast: 1525-1531 Meyendorff Castle: Замок Майендорф Moscow Oblast: 1874-1885 Monastery of Saint Euthymius: Спасо-Евфимиев монастырь Vladimir Oblast: 1352-1669 Moscow Kremlin: Московский кремль Moscow: 1482 ...
The Moscow Kremlin [a] or simply the Kremlin [b] is a fortified complex in Moscow, Russia. [1] Located in the centre of the country's capital city, it is the best known of the kremlins (Russian citadels ) and includes five palaces, four cathedrals, and the enclosing Kremlin Wall along with the Kremlin towers .
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 ...
The Assumption Castle (Russian: Успенский замок) a castle is located 20 km from Moscow along the Rublyovo-Uspenskoye Highway. The Assumption Castle is the main building of the estate "Uspenskoye," where in 1897 famous artist Isaac Levitan lived and writer Anton Chekhov frequently visited.
In the 1770s Catherine the Great decided to build a new palace to be used for short stopovers en route from St Petersburg to Moscow.Apart from being of practical use, the erection of the Petrovsky Palace also had a symbolical nature and was connected with Russia's victory in the Russian-Turkish War and with the signing of the Treaty of Kucuk-Kainarji.
Comparison of the definitive 1937 version (red) with scaled-down 1948 (yellow) and 1956 (blue) designs and the main building of Moscow State University (green), superimposed on the 2019 outline of the Moscow International Business Center (grey) Iofan and the remnants of his team spent most of the war in Sverdlovsk working on defense projects. [3]
A kremlin (/ ˈ k r ɛ m l ɪ n / KREM-lin ⓘ; Russian: кремль, romanized: kremlj, IPA: [ˈkrʲemlʲ] ⓘ) is a major fortified central complex found in historic Russian cities. [1] [2] The word is often used to refer to the Moscow Kremlin [3] and metonymically to the government based there. [4]