Around Saint Basil's Cathedral

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Approaching St. Basil's Cathedral from the southern end we gradually get a view of the large expanse of Red Square with the Kremlin on the left and GUM on the right.

The Cathedral of Intercession of Theotokos on the Moat, popularly known as the Cathedral of Basil the Blessed, is a Russian Orthodox cathedral erected on the Red Square in Moscow in 15551561. Built on the order of Ivan IV of Russia to commemorate the capture of Kazan and Astrakhan, it marks the geometric center of the city and the hub of its growth since the 14th century.

The original building, known as Trinity Church and later Trinity Cathedral, contained eight side churches arranged around the ninth, central church of Intercession; the tenth church was erected in 1588 over the grave of venerated local Fool Vasily (Basil). In the 16th and the 17th centuries the cathedral, perceived as the earthly symbol of the Heavenly City,] was popularly known as the Jerusalem and served as an allegory of the Jerusalem Temple in the annual Palm Sunday parade attended by the Patriarch of Moscow and the tsar.

The building's design, shaped as a flame of a bonfire rising into the sky, has no analogues in Russian architecture: "It is like no other Russian building. Nothing similar can be found in the entire millenium of Byzantine tradition from the fifth to fifteenth century... a strangeness that astonishes by its unexpectedness, complexity and dazzling interleaving of the manifold details of its design." The cathedral foreshadowed the climax of Russian national architecture in the 17th century but has never been reproduced directly.

The cathedral has operated as a division of the State Historical Museum since 1928. It was completely secularized in 1929 and, as of 2009, remains a federal property of the Russian Federation. The cathedral has been part of the Moscow Kremlin and Red Square UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1990.

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[Modelnaam]

I was in Moscow last vacation. I can tell you: It's really amazing. I'd liked Kremlin the most. Everything looks like a fairytail.

[alanheath]

@Modelnaam I think in many places Russia does give this impression!

[majid123abc]

this place looks like a giant sweety and it also reminds me of Disney Land =D

[alanheath]

@majid123abc It does rather have that effect!

[MultiDmart]

nice video was it ever destroyed

[alanheath]

Very lucky it was not destroyed in my opinion. The church at the other end of Red Square was rebuilt in the 1990s after Stalin destroyed it in a wave of vandalism.

[BugrinSergey]

Moscow is great!! visit TourdeMoscow com so that when you travel to the Great Capital of Russia you will have the time of your life