Amazon Quiz: This church was built to commemorate the conquest of what by Russia?
Kazan and Astrakhan
Baltics
Volga Bulgaria
Sibir
Answer: Kazan and Astrakhan
Saint Basil the Blessed Church was constructed on Red
Square in Moscow between 1557 and 1560 by Tsar Ivan IV (the Terrible), as a
votive offering for his military victories over the khanates of Kazan and
Astrakhan. The church is also called Pokrovsky Cathedral, Russian Svyatoy
Vasily Blazhenny, or Pokrovsky Sobor.
It was dedicated to the protection and intercession of the
Virgin, but it came to be known as the Cathedral of Vasily Blazhenny after
Basil, the Russian holy fool who was “idiotic for Christ’s sake” and who was
buried in the church vaults during the reign (1584–98) of Tsar Fyodor I.
The church was designed by two Russian architects, Posnik
and Barma (who may in fact have been one person). However, it was built by an
Italian architect who was blinded so that he could never create anything that
was similar or equal. Red Square, is an open square in Moscow adjoining the
historic fortress and center of government known as the Kremlin. The Kremlin
and Red Square were added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 1990.
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