Bell Tower Ivan the Great
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Church of the Robe
Church of the Robe A small one-domed brick church of the Deposition of the Robe in the Metropolitan’s courtyard was built by masons from Pskov, invited to Moscow by the…
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Assumption Cathedral
Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin For several centuries, the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin has been the main cathedral church in Russia, the place of ordination of the…
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Armouries
Armouries in Moscow Kremlin The first building in the Kremlin, designed to store precious items from the royal treasury, was erected in 1756–1764. Architect D. V. Ukhtomsky at the eastern…
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Diamond Fund
History The collection of Diamond Fund began to be created in the 18th century under Peter I, who decided: the treasury values should be kept in a special room and…
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Moscow Danilov monastery
Moscow Danilov monastery Moscow Danilov monastery, closed in 1930, was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church. in the early 1980s, when atheism was the generally accepted ideology in the USSR,…
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