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Thursday, January 29, 2015

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Intercession Cathedral Hill (Russian: Собор Покрова что на Рву, Pokrova Sobor na chto RVU, better known as the Cathedral of St. Basil the Blessed or Saint Basil's Cathedral alone) is a church that has a lot of onion-shaped dome complex in Red Square, Moscow, which is traditionally regarded as a symbol of the unique position of Russia between Europe and Asia.



Construction of the cathedral was initiated by Ivan the Terrible and built between 1555 and 1561 in Moscow to commemorate the capture of Kazan Khanate. Tsar Fedor Ivanovich in 1588 added a chapel at the east side above the grave of Basil the Blessed (yurodivy Vassily Blazhenny), a Russian Orthodox saint is used as the name of this cathedral.




Saint Basil's Cathedral is located on the southeastern tip of the Red Square, (55 ° 45'08.88 "N, 37 ° 37'23.00" E), just across the Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin. The building is not so great, and consists of nine chapels built with a single foundation. The design of this cathedral following the cone-roofed churches at the same time, especially the Church Increase in Kolomenskoye (1530) and the Church of Saint John the Baptist Beheading Head in Dyakovo (1547).




In a park in front of the cathedral stands a bronze statue to commemorate Dmitry Pozharsky and Kuzma Minin, who collects the Russian volunteer forces in the face of the invasion of Poland in the Tribulation in the late 17th century and early 18th century. The statue was originally placed in the middle of Red Square, but the Soviet government felt the statue was blocking the parade, and therefore the statue then moved in front of the cathedral in 1936.




The initial concept of this cathedral is a collection of chapels, each dedicated to every saint whose feast day falls at the time of Tsar win in a battle. However, the construction of a single tower unite these spaces into a cathedral. According to legend, Ivan ordered the architect, Postnik Yakovlev, made blind so he would not build a building that is more beautiful for others.




Lately, there has been speculation that certain elements of the monuments Tamerlane in Samarkand or elements of Qolşärif Mosque in Kazan described in this cathedral because the mosque is the epitome of Khanate of Kazan. However, the original form of the mosque itself is unknown.

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Red Square (Russian: Красная площадь, Krasnaya ploshchad) is a field which is located next to the Kremlin, Moscow, Russia. In the vicinity of this field, there is the Soviet Union History Museum, Saint Basil's Cathedral was built in the XIV century with the fall of Kazan, and the Mausoleum of Lenin as the funeral of Vladimir Lenin's body is preserved.

Red Square is a ceremony, celebration and military parade that preceded the Soviet Union and forwarded by the Russian Federation.
The State Tretyakov Gallery
The State Tretyakov Gallery (Russian: Государственная Третьяковская Галерея, Gosudarstvennaya Tretyakovskaya Galereya; abbreviated ГТГ, GTG) is an art gallery in Moscow, Russia, the foremost depository of Russian fine art in the world.

The gallery's history starts in 1856 when the Moscow merchant Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov acquired works by Russian artists of his day with the aim of creating a collection, the which MIGHT later grow into a museum of national art. In 1892, Tretyakov presented his already famous collection of approximately 2,000 works (1,362 paintings, 526 drawings, sculptures and 9) to the Russian nation. 

The façade of the gallery building was designed by the painter Viktor Vasnetsov in a peculiar Russian fairy-tale style. It was built in 1902-04 to the south from the Moscow Kremlin. During the 20th century, the gallery expanded to Several neighboring buildings, Including the 17th-century church of St. Nicholas in Tolmachi.

The collection contains more than 130,000 exhibits, ranging from Theotokos of Vladimir and Andrei Rublev's Trinity to the monumental Composition VII by Wassily Kandinsky and the Black Square by Kazimir Malevich.

In 1977 the Gallery kept a significant part of the George Costakis collection.

In May 2012, the Tretyakov Art Gallery played host to the prestigious FIDE World Chess Championship between Viswanathan Anand and Boris Gelfand as the organizers felt the event would promote both chess and art at the same time.

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The Bolshoi Theatre (Russian: Большой театр, tr. Bol'shoy Teatr; IPA: [bɐlʲʂoj tʲɪatr]) is a historic theater in Moscow, Russia, designed by architect Joseph Bove, the which holds performances of ballet and opera. The theater's original name was the Imperial Bolshoi Theatre of Moscow, while the St. Petersburg Bolshoi Theatre (demolished in 1886), was called the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre.
At that time, all Russian theaters were imperial property. Moscow and St. Petersburg call now had only two theaters, one intended for opera and ballet (Reviews These were known as the Bolshoi Theatres), and one for plays (tragedies and comedies). Because opera and ballet were Considered nobler than drama, the opera houses were named "Grand Theatres" ("Bolshoi" is Russian for "large" or "grand") and the drama theaters were called the "Smaller Theatre" ("Maly" is Russian for "small", "lesser", or "little").
The Bolshoi Ballet and Bolshoi Opera are amongst the oldest and most renowned ballet and opera companies in the world. It is by far the world's biggest ballet company, having more than 200 dancers. The theater is the parent company of The Bolshoi Ballet Academy, a world-famous leading school of ballet. It has a branch at the Bolshoi Theatre School in Joinville, Brazil.
The main building of the theater, rebuilt and renovated Several times during its history, is a landmark of Moscow and Russia (its iconic neoclassical facade is depicted on the Russian 100-ruble banknote). On 28 October 2011, the Bolshoi was re-opened after an extensive six-year renovation. An official cost for the renovation is 21 billion rubles ($ 688 million). However, other Russian authorities claimed much more public money were spent. $ 1.1 billion According to Der Spiegel The renovation included restoring acoustics to the original quality (which had been lost during the Soviet era), as well as restoring the original Imperial decor of the Bolshoi. and many other tourist attractions in this beautiful russian
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