St Basil Cathedral
The Intercession Cathedral on the Moat, which in the last couple of centuries became better know as St. Basil's Cathedral, was built in 1555-1561 by Tsar Ivan IV (the Terrible) in fulfillment of a vow, "because the Lord entrusted him, the sovereign, with the Kingdom of Kazan".
Probably this photo is not of my best shots with beautiful colors and light, but anyway, I want to share this photo with you, thinking that composition here is not so bad and it was taken from the famous Russian cathedral, Moscow landmark. As about the architecture, buildings and monuments, probably most of you already know all of them, but anyway I want to mark (show) the most important ones on this photo:
Foreground - Monument to the Kozma Minin and Prince Dmitri Pozharsky, the heroes of the national struggle for liberation against the Swedish and Polish invaders in 1610-1612;
Left side - Lenin's Tomb (looksnot so clear because of light) and behind it - the Kremlin's Nikolskaya (St. Nicholas) Tower stands 67.1 meters tall near the State Historical Museum and was built at the end of 15th century in the same time as the Spasskaya Tower. In 1612 the Russian volunteer army, led by Kuzma Minin and Prince Dmitry Pozharsky, fought their way into the Kremlin through the Nikolskaya and Spasskaya gates to liberate the citadel from Polish invaders;
Right side - the GUM - Famous Department store on the Red square. GUM is a short on Russian for a State Department Store. It was built as a store in 1893 and called Upper Trade Rows. It was the biggest store in Russia before the revolution, and the most popular after;
Background straight - red brick beautiful building - The State Historical Museum was built in 1881, this is one of the biggest museums in Russia;
Background right - right side of Historical Museum - the Voskesensky (Resurrection) Gates of the former Kitaigorod wall have been destroyed with the chapel built specially for the Iberian icon of Mother of God - an exact copy of miracle-working Icon of the same name which is kept on Mount Athos in Greece - by Stalin order to extend the Red square for military parades. . They was reconstructed by it's original shape after 1993.
I hope you enjoy the photo with my description about the buildings on the Red Square which is a symbol of Russia and its architectural ensemble is considered to be one of the most beautiful squares in Europe. Through the ages it changed its name many times and only in the 17th century it received its present name "Krasnaya" - Red, which in old Russian meant - "Beautiful".
Red Square
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St. Basil's Cathedral
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