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Description: | An ornate multi-tented church on the Red Square in Moscow that features distinctive multi-colored onion domes- historical landmark and famous building in Moscow, Russia (U.S.S.R.) |
Difficulty rating: | 4.0 |
Design from: | Gene Granata |
This example: | Mockup pumpkin |
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Saint Basil's Cathedral is is traditionally perceived as symbolic of the unique position of Russia between Europe and Asia.
The cathedral was commissioned by Ivan IV (also known as Ivan the Terrible) and built between 1555 and 1561 in Moscow to commemorate the capture of the Khanate of Kazan. In 1588 Tsar Fedor Ivanovich had a chapel added on the eastern side above the grave of Basil Fool for Christ (yurodivy Vassily Blazhenny), a Russian Orthodox saint after whom the cathedral was popularly named. A popular but untrue legend says that Ivan had the architect, Postnik Yakovlev, blinded to prevent him from building a more magnificent building for anyone else.
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