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  2. Saint Basil's Cathedral - Wikipedia

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    The building, now a museum, is officially known as the Cathedral of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat, or Pokrovsky Cathedral. [3] It was built from 1555 to 1561 on orders from Ivan the Terrible and commemorates the capture of Kazan and Astrakhan. Its completion, with its colors, was made in 1683.

  3. Ivan the Terrible - Wikipedia

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    Ivan IV Vasilyevich (Russian: Иван IV Васильевич; [d] 25 August 1530 – 28 March [O.S. 18 March] 1584), commonly known as Ivan the Terrible, [e] was Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1533 to 1547, and the first Tsar and Grand Prince of all Russia from 1547 until his death in 1584. [3]

  4. Postnik Yakovlev - Wikipedia

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    According to legend, Ivan the Terrible blinded Yakovlev so that he could never build anything so beautiful again. However, this is probably a myth, as Yakovlev, in cooperation with another master, Ivan ShirIai, designed the walls of the Kazan Kremlin and the Cathedral of the Annunciation [ ru ] in Kazan in 1561 and 1562, just after the ...

  5. Lost Library of Ivan the Terrible - Wikipedia

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    Also reported is the fact that Protestant Minister Wetterman never returned home after being in Moscow. According to myth Ivan IV had the architect of Saint Basil's Cathedral blinded in order to never be able to recreate it, hiding its secrets. Therefore, Ivan IV involvement in Wetterman's disappearance after seeing the library would seem ...

  6. Ivan Barma - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  7. Basil Fool for Christ - Wikipedia

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    The Intercession Cathedral in Moscow is named after the saint. Vasily was born to serfs in December 1468 at the portico of the Epiphany Cathedral at Yelokhovo (now in Moscow). [1] His father was named Jacob and his mother Anna. Originally an apprentice shoemaker, he went to Moscow when he was sixteen. There he helped those who were ashamed to ...

  8. Donkey walk - Wikipedia

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    Ivan the Terrible mocked and abused the ritual in his 1570 campaign against the Novgorod clergy. After looting the churches of Novgorod, Ivan demoted the archbishop of Novgorod and ordered him, a tonsured monk , to mount a mare backwards, to ride to Moscow in a skomorokh 's garb, to marry there and to lead the life of a skomorokh until the end ...

  9. Dormition Cathedral, Moscow - Wikipedia

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    In 1547, the coronation of the first Russian Tsar, Ivan the Terrible, took place in this cathedral. [7] From 1721 it was the scene of the coronation of the Russian emperors. The ritual installation of metropolitans and patriarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church also took place in this cathedral, and their tombs are to be found here.