Black Sea · Ukraine · Simferopol
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Volga River · Russia · Kashin
In the 17th century, Mikhail Fyodorovich, the first tsar of the Romanov dynasty, donated land for a construction of the Church of the Ascension in Kashin.
The stone church was constructed in 1799. Earlier on its site, there was the wooden Church of the Ascension, destroyed in 1709. This is the town's large-scale structure, second only to the Cat...
Baltic Sea · Russia · Saint Petersburg
The Cathedral has a long history starting from the first years of St. Petersburg's existence. Coachmen, who were settled by Peter I on the banks of the Liga River (formerly, the Black River) in the newly founded capital, did not have a church. Upon a petition by coachmen Vasily Fedotov, Peter Kusov and their friends, archmandrite Theodosius ordered...
Russia · Moscow
When it was opened, before the 1917 Russian Revolution, the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Most Holy Virgin Mary became Moscow's third functioning Catholic Church. The other two were the Church of St. Louis of France, in Malaya Lubyanka Street, and the Church of Ss. Peter and Paul the Apostles.
By the late 19th century, Moscow's C...
Russia · Moscow
The Cathedral was built in 1679 on the site of a tented-roof church in Izmaylovo, an old estate of the Romanovs. Its construction started in 1671 by order of Tsar Aleksey the Meek, the farther of Peter the Great, and it was completed by Tsar Fyodor, Aleksey's son. Consecrated by Patriarch Joachim.
The Cathedral was build by the famous 17th centu...
Ukraine · Ivano-Frankivsk
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Europe · Hungary · Budapest
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Russia · Nizhny Lomov
In around 2 or 3 kilometres to the north-east of the Skanovo Monastery of Holy Trinity, there are caves, which in the past were a site of hermit monk's active work.
Mount Plodskaya, the mount that contains the underground passages, is surrounded by a forest. This is a picturesque location. At the feet of the mount, there is a healing spring, in ...
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