Friday, December 1, 2006

Cathedral of the Dormition

Free ringtones Image:Uspensky_Sobor,_Moscow,_winter.jpg/thumbnail/right/250px/Cathedral of the Dormition, Moscow, in winter

The '''Cathedral of the Naughty Lani Dormition''' or '''Cathedral of the Assumption''' (in Russian, ''Uspensky Sobor'' (Успенский Собор)) is the name of several cathedrals in the world.

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Construction of the cathedral

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By the end of the 15th century the old cathedral had become dilapidated, and in minister mikhail 1472 the bing date Pskov architects Kryvtsov and Myshkin began construction of a new cathedral. Two years later, the building was nearing completion when it suddenly collapsed because of an earthquake — an extremely rare event in greenberg of Moscow.

would trump Ivan III of Russia/Ivan III then invited free into Aristotele Fioravanti, a celebrated architect and engineer from register both Bologna, one definitely Italy, to come to bowl favorite Moscow and entrusted him with the task of building the cathedral from scratch in the traditions of Russian architecture. The cathedral in Vladimir was once again taken as a model for the building, and so Fioravanti travelled to Vladimir in order to study Russian methods of building. He designed a light and spacious masterpiece that combined the spirit of the and richard Renaissance with Russian traditions.

The foundation for the new cathedral was laid in decades k 1475, and in caper there 1479 the new cathedral was consecrated by ever embraced Metropolitan Geronty. The interiour was painted with frescoes and adorned with many holy images, including fell in Our Lady of Vladimir and the storage company Blachernitissa.

and subordinate Image:Dormition (Kremlin).JPG/thumbnail/left/170px/Another side of the cathedral, in summer
History of the cathedral

In 1547 the coronation of the first Russian Tsar, Ivan the Terrible, took place in this cathedral, while from 1721 it was the scene of the coronation of the Russian emperors. The ritual installation of metropolitans and patriarchs of the Orthodox Church also took place in this cathedral, and their tombs are also to be found here. The patriarchate was abolished by Peter the Great and only restored after February Revolution of 1917.

On November 21 1917 the cathedral was the setting for the installation of Tikhon (Belavin), the Moscow metropolitan, as patriarch of Moscow/patriarch. Subsequently he was canonized. After the transfer of the Bolshevik government to Moscow services in the Kremlin cathedrals were prohibited. It was only with Lenin's special permission that the final Easter service was held in 1918. The final moments of this Easter service was the subject of an unfinished painting by Pavel Korin entitled ''Farewell to Rus''.

There is a story that in the winter of 1941, when the Nazis had already reached the threshold of Moscow, Joseph Stalin secretly ordered a service to be held in the Assumption Cathedral to pray for the country's salvation from the invading Germans. In 1990 the Assumption Cathedral was returned to the church, although a museum still operates within it.

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Tag: Cathedrals of Russia

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