Cathedral Of The Archangel Michael

The Cathedral of the Archangel (s in Russia .

One particular cathedral by this name stands on the Cathedral Square in the Moscow Kremlin . It was constructed between 1505 and 1508 under the supervision of an Italian Architect Aleviz Fryazin Noviy on the spot of an older cathedral, built in 1333 .

It contains Fresco es dating to the 16th and 17th centuries. Some of them were painted by Yakov of Kazan, Stepan of Ryazan, Joseph Vladimirov and others between 1652 and 1666 . The stonework on the walls of the cathedral was clearly influenced by the Italian Renaissance . There are also a fretted wooden gilded Iconostasis 13 Meter s high with the Icon s of the 17th - 19th centuries and church Chandelier s of the 17th century.

Victories of the Russian Military were celebrated in the Cathedral of the Archangel. Russian Tsar s and Grand Prince s were buried within the cathedral until the 17th Century , who remain there to this day (including Ivan I Kalita , Dmitri Donskoi , Ivan The Great , Ivan The Terrible ). There are 54 Burial s in the cathedral, 46 Ornament ed whitestone Tombstone s ( 1636 - 1637 ) and glazed cases made of Bronze ( 1903 ).

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