St. Basil’s Cathedral is Russia’s most enduring symbol. It is located in Red Square, next to the Kremlin, in downtown Moscow. Ivan the Terrible ordered it. Its architect, Postnik Yakovlev, was blinded so that he would not be able to recreate its beauty.
It has nine individual chapels, each topped with a unique onion dome and each commemorating a victorious assault on the city of Kazan. The church has narrowly escaped destruction a number of times during the city’s turbulent history. Some conceive of it as devine intervention
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