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Museum "Pokrovsky Cathedral". The Cathedral of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin (St.Basil's Cathedral)


Phone: (495) 698-3304

Address: 103012, Moscow, Red square, 2

Location: Metro Stations: Ploshad Revolytsii, Okhotny Ryad, Kitai-gorod

Working hours:* Open: from November to April, 11am - 4pm; from May to October, 10am - 5pm. Closed Tuesdays and the

Internet:
    www.russianmuseums.info/M338 - official web page
    Cathedral of the Protecting Veil of the Mother of God. Cathedral of St. Vasily the Blessed - W567, official web site www.saintbasil.ru/
    The State Historical Museum - W469 www.shm.ru

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Description:
    The Cathedral of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin, or St.Basil's Cathedral, was built in 1555 - 1561 to commemorate the victory of the Russians over Kazan Khannate on 1st October 1552. The Russian tzar Ivan the Terrible ordered two Russian architects (Barma and Postnik) to build a monument in honour of the victory, and it is said he had their eyes poked out so that they could never design anything to rival its beauty.



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Administrative phone:
    (495) 692-5660



Foundation and opening day:
    founded: 01.01.1925

Organisation status:
   State Russia

Organization form:
   non-for-profit

Organisation type:
    culture for society




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