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The Upper Saviour's Cathedral and Terem Churches
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Золотые купола Верхоспасского собора и теремных церквей и Золотой куполь Церкви Ризоположения. The Upper Saviour's Cathedral and Terem Churches, easily recognisable for its 11 golden domes that can be viewed from the Cathedral Square at Moscow Kremlin between Church of the Deposition of the Robe (Церковь Ризоположения) and the Palace of the Facets (Грановитая Палата). This is actally a complex of several churches under a single roof. The first of these churches, the Saint Catherine Church - housechurch of Russian Queens and Princesses (домовый храм цариц и царевен), adjacent to the west and north to the Queens Galley (Золотой Царицыной палатой) was built in 1627. The Housechurch of Russian Tsars with a chapel of Saviour John the Baptist (Домовая церковь царей - Спаса Нерукотворного с более низким приделом Иоанна Белогородского), later called the Upper Cathedral with a chapel of John the Baptist, was bulit in1635-36 at the same time as Terem Palace underwent a major rebuilt. The Upper Saviour’s Cathedral also has a conjuction to the Terem Palace to the east side. In 1654 the Church of Eudokia (Церковь Евдокии) was built above the Chuch of Chatherine. In 1663 the Quadrangular Church (Четверик храма) was built over the Queens Galley. In 1679-1682 the complex of Palace Churches underwent a mayor reconstruction! A small church called the Crucifixion Church (Храм Воздвижения креста Господня) was added and the Church of Eudokia was renamed to the Church of Rusurection (церковь Воскресения Словущего). A single roof where built over all churches and the roof was crowned with 11 small golden domes on exquisite drums, placed so that they formed three five-domed compositions. Another major restructuring took place in 1840 when the Grand Kremlin Palace was built, after which the church complex was connected to the Grand Kremlin Palace and no longer was a stand alone building. The stand alone golden dome on the white tower in the front is the Church of the Deposition of the Robe. This church was built in 1484 by masters from Pskov, most likely by the same group of architects who built the adjacent Cathedral of the Annunciation (Благовещенский собор). The Church of the Deposition of the Robe was built on the site of a previous church, built by Jonah Metropolitan of Moscow in 1451. The name of the church is said to refer to a festival dating from the 5th century AD, celebrating when the robe of the Virgin Mary was taken from Palestine to Constantinople, where it protected the city from being conquered. For example, tradition says that during the Russian-Byzantine War of 860 the patriarch placed the Virgin's Robe into the sea, causing a storm that destroyed the invading Russian ships. Originally, the church was used by the Patriarch of Moscow, but during the 17th century it was taken over by the Russian royal family.


Успенский собор / The Cathedral of the Dormition.
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The Cathedral of the Dormition (Успенский Собор) is the mother church of Muscovite Russia. The church stands on the Cathedral Square at the Moscow Kremlin and was built in 1475–1479 by the Italian architect Aristotele Fioravanti. In the 14th century, Metropolitan Peter persuaded Ivan I that he should build a cathedral to the Holy Virgin in Moscow like the Cathedral of the Dormition in the capital city Vladimir. Construction of the cathedral began on August 4, 1326. In the following year, Moscow became the capital of the Vladimir-Suzdal principality, and later of all Rus. By the end of the 15th century the old cathedral had become dilapidated, and in 1472 the Pskov architects Kryvtsov and Myshkin began construction of a new cathedral. Two years later, the building was nearing completion when it suddenly collapsed because of an earthquake, an extremely rare event in Moscow. Ivan III then invited Aristotele Fioravanti, a celebrated architect and engineer from Bologna, Italy, to come to Moscow and entrusted him with the task of building the cathedral from scratch in the traditions of Russian architecture. The cathedral in Vladimir was once again taken as a model for the building, and so Fioravanti travelled to Vladimir in order to study Russian methods of building. He designed a light and spacious masterpiece that combined the spirit of the Renaissance with Russian traditions. The foundation for the new cathedral was laid in 1475, and in 1479 the new cathedral was consecrated by Metropolitan Geronty. The interiour was painted with frescoes and adorned with many holy images, including Theotokos of Vladimir and the Blachernitissa. In 1547 the coronation of the first Russian Tsar, Ivan the Terrible, took place in this cathedral. 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. The patriarchate was abolished by Peter the Great and only restored after February Revolution of 1917. On November 21, 1917 the cathedral was the setting for the installation of Tikhon (Belavin), the Moscow metropolitan, as patriarch. Subsequently he was canonized. After the transfer of the Bolshevik government to Moscow, services in the Kremlin cathedrals were prohibited. It was only with Lenin's special permission that the final Easter service was held in 1918. The final moments of this Easter service was the subject of an unfinished painting by Pavel Korin entitled Farewell to Rus. There is a legend that in the winter of 1941, when the Nazis had already reached the threshold of Moscow, Joseph Stalin secretly ordered a service to be held in the Dormition Cathedral to pray for the country's salvation from the invading Germans. In 1990 the Dormition Cathedral was returned to the church, although a large museum still operates within it. On the left side of The Cathedral of the Dormition stands Church of the Deposition of the Robe and to the right Church of the Twelve Apostles.


Moscow Kremlin - 008
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The Soviet government moved from Petrograd to Moscow on 12 March 1918. Lenin selected the Kremlin Senate as his residence. Stalin also had his personal rooms in the Kremlin. He was eager to remove from his headquarters all the relics of the tsarist regime. Golden eagles on the towers were replaced by shining Kremlin stars, while the wall near Lenin's Mausoleum was turned into the Kremlin Wall Necropolis. The Chudov Monastery and Ascension Convent, with their magnificent 16th-century cathedrals, were dismantled to make room for the military school and Palace of Congresses. The Little Nicholas Palace and the old Saviour Cathedral were pulled down as well. The residence of the Soviet government was closed to tourists until 1955. It was not until the Khrushchev Thaw that the Kremlin was reopened to foreign visitors. The Kremlin Museums were established in 1961 and the complex was among the first Soviet patrimonies inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1990. Although the current director of the Kremlin Museums, Elena Gagarina (Yuri Gagarin's daughter) advocates a full-scale restoration of the destroyed cloisters, recent developments have been confined to expensive restoration of the original interiors of the Grand Kremlin Palace, which were altered during Stalin's rule. The Patriarch of Moscow has a suite of rooms in the Kremlin, but divine service in the Kremlin cathedrals is held irregularly, because they are still administered as museums. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Kremlin


The Tsar Bell
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If visitors make a brief detour just before passing through the archway into Cathedral Square, they'll find two of the Kremlin's more curious structures - the Tsar Bell and the Tsar Cannon. Curious in that the former was never rung and the latter was never fired! The enormous Tsar Bell is an impressive 6.14 meters in height, 6.6 meters in diameter and weighs some 200 tons, making it the largest bell in the world. The first version weighed 130 tons and was cast in 1655, but not hoisted into the belfry of the Assumption Cathedral for another 19 years. During a fire in 1701 it fell down and shattered. Almost three decades later, Empress Anna ordered that the broken fragments be used to cast a second larger bell, which was executed between 1734 and 1735. While the bell was cooling off in its casting pit, a great fire began in the Kremlin in May 1737 and water thrown on the bell in attempt to douse the flames caused a chunk weighing over 11 tons to crack and break off. The bell lay in a great pit for almost a hundred years until 1836, when the French architect Auguste Montferrand raised it and placed it on a granite pedestal, next to its broken section. Where it still remains as a popular stop for tourists.


Царь-Колокол / Tsar Bell
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The Tsar Bell (Царь-колокол) is a huge bell on display on the grounds of the Moscow Kremlin. The bell was commissioned by Empress Anna, niece of Peter the Great. The bell is currently the largest bell in the world, weighing 216 tons, with a height of 6.1 m and diameter of 6.6 m. It was founded from bronze by masters Ivan Motorin and his son Mikhail in 1733–1735. Ornaments, portraits, and inscriptions were made by V. Kobelev, P. Galkin, P. Kokhtev, P. Serebryakov and P. Lukovnikov. The bell was never rung, during a fire in 1737, a huge slab (11.5 tonnes) cracked off while it was still in the casting pit. After the fire, the bell remained in its casting for a century. In 1836, the Tsar bell was placed on a stone pedestal next to the Ivan the Great Bell Tower in the Moscow Kremlin, Moscow, Russia.


Dormition Cathedral,Kremlin,Moscow,Russia
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Dormition Cathedral situated in Moscow Kremlin, Russia. In 1547 the coronation of the first Russian Tsar, Ivan the Terrible, took place in this cathedral. 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. The patriarchate was abolished by Peter the Great and only restored after the February Revolution of 1917, though the groundwork for the restoration was already in progress by that time, with the permission of Nicholas II. The plaza in front of the Cathedral is the setting for the famous Coronation Scene in Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov.


Slavic Gospel
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Fragment of a Russian icon in a Kremlin temple. The funny thing is, this text is not in Russian but.. in Bulgarian (one has to be native to realise it). Christianity came to Russia via southern Slavic (Bulgarian) evangelists; two of them (brothers Cyrill and Methodius) even wrote an alphabet to translate the Gospel form Greek into the prevailing language of Slavic tribes of the time. Few people in today's Russia know that they are writing in the Bulgarian alphabet, some were told at school that it was written by their tsar Peter I The Great (6-7 centuries later)....


Cathedral of the Annunciation- Kremlin
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On the crest of Borovitsky Hill, at the south end of Sobornaya Ploshad (Cathedral Square), stands the Cathedral of the Annunciation. The first church was built on this spot as early as 1397 by order of Grand Duke Vassily I. The present building dates from 1484, when Ivan III (the Great), the great Muscovite empire-builder, ordered a new cathedral on the site. It was completed in 1489 by Krivtsov and Mishkin, masons from Pskov, who blended Greek and Russian styles in their design. credited to Moscow.info


Tsar Pushka
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Tsar Pushka which means Tsar Cannon is a huge cannon, commissioned in 1586 by Russian Tsar Feodor and cast by Andrey Chokhov. The cannon weighs nearly 38 tonnes and has a calibre of 890 mm. The Guinness Book of Records lists it as the largest howitzer ever made. The cannon has never been fired and it may have been intended as only a showpiece of military might and engineering.


Moscow 1976
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Whoever said the one with the biggest cannon wins? This was at one time the largest cannon in the world. It didn't do any Tsar much good. It was commissioned in 1586. Earl Jackson and Jutta Luplow in Moscow. This is a trip we took while attending Julius-Maximilians Universität in in Würzburg. April 1976


Inside the Kremlin, Moscow, Russia
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The world's largest bell (apparently) weighing in at 202 tonnes. Cast from the remains of an earlier version that fell from the huge bell tower it stands beside. It was never used as it came in contact with water while still cooling and shattered a large chunk from one side.


Колокольня Ивана Великого / Ivan the Great's Bell Tower
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With a hight of 81 meter, Ivan the Great Bell Tower is the tallest of bell towers in the Moscow Kremlin. It was built between 1505 and 1508 to serve as bell tower for the Dormition, Archangel and Annunciation cathedrals, which do not have their own belfries.


Moscow. Heat
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Abnormally high temperature has set in in Moscow and most of the European part of Russia. Corporal of the Moscow Kremlin Guard helps soldier on duty. Taken by film camera Minolta Maxxum 7 and scanned in photo lab.


King of Bells
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it was so cold that there was nobody in sight, you need a human figure for reference (about the height of the broken piece) to grasp the giant size of this historic bell within the Kremlin complex.


mokrem14 Moscow Russia, Ivan Great Bell Tower 2000
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Ivan the Great Bell Tower, with Assumption Belfry. Inside the Kremlin of Moscow, Russia in April 2000. Formerly the tallest building in Moscow and said to mark the exact centre of the city.


mokrem10 Moscow Russia, Dormition Cathedral 2000
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Entrance to The Cathedral of the Dormition, the mother-church of Muscovite Russia. Great mosaics above the doorway. Inside the Kremlin of Moscow, Russia in April 2000.


mokrem19 Moscow Russia, Church Deposition Robe 2000
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Interior icon and mosaic-covered walls of the Church of the Deposition of the Robe. Inside the Kremlin of Moscow, Russia in April 2000. Covered with mosaics and icons.


mokrem24 Moscow Russia, Church Deposition Robe 2000
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Mother and child contemplating the icon and mosaic-covered walls of the Church of the Deposition of the Robe. Inside the Kremlin of Moscow, Russia in April 2000.


mokrem17 Moscow Russia, Church Deposition Robe 2000
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Interior ceiling and candelabra of the Church of the Deposition of the Robe. Inside the Kremlin of Moscow, Russia in April 2000. Covered with mosaics and icons.


mokrem20 Moscow Russia, Church Deposition Robe 2000
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Interior mosaic-covered walls of the Church of the Deposition of the Robe. Inside the Kremlin of Moscow, Russia in April 2000. Covered with mosaics and icons.