Russia · Moscow
The Russian Revival Church was built in 1855 with greatest financial support from merchant M. Mushnikov as well as on donations from parishioners in Semyonovskoye Cemetery, founded in 1711 after the cholera epidemic.
Being a basilica-type building, popular in the second half of the 19th century, it is a large, stretched along the east-west axis ...
Russia · Moscow
The Convent was founded by Duchess Maria, mother of Prince Vladimir the Bold, a hero of the Battle of Kulikovo, and wife of Prince Andrew of Serpukhov in 1386. It was built on the outskirts of the town, on a steep bank of the Neglinka River, and at the very edge of the Kuchkovo Field.
In 1501 to 1505, the stone Cathedral of the Nativity of the M...
Russia · Moscow
In the early 17th century, there was a shelter for the poor located near the road passing along the left bank of the Neglinnaya River. Near the shelter, there was the wooden Church of St. Nicholas. In 1657, the wooden church was reconstructed in stone.
Later, in 1677, when the settlement was inhabited by bell ringers from Ivan the Great Bell Tow...