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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.
St. Basil's Cathedral. 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 ...
After a few years, the Cathedral of Intercession of the Virgin, commonly known as Saint Basil's Cathedral, was built on the moat under the rule of Ivan IV. This was the first building which gave the square its present-day characteristic silhouette (pyramidal roofs had not yet been built on the Kremlin towers).
Saint Basil's Cathedral (1482–95) is a showcase of Muscovite Russian architecture. [1] ... Aleviso Novi, built the cathedral of St Michael in the Kremlin (1505–09 ...
It intentionally resembles the 17th-century Yaroslavl churches and the celebrated St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow. [2] Mosaic of Christ Pantocrator under the central dome. The church contains over 7500 square meters of mosaics—according to its restorers, more than any other church in the world.
St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Izhevsk, built between 1818 and 1823; Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Kaliningrad, ... Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow;
However, in reality Postnik Yakovlev went on to design more churches for Ivan and the walls of the Kazan Kremlin in the early 1560s as well as the chapel over Saint Basil's grave, which was added to Saint Basil's Cathedral in 1588, several years after Ivan's death. Although more than one architect was associated with that name, it is believed ...
Onion domes of Saint Basil's Cathedral. Supposedly, [original research?] ... The first one was built in 1576 by the architect Johannes Holl (1512–1594) ...