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Cathedral of the Annunciation, (Kremlin, Moscow) 1484-89, 1560s-70s.
Aristotele Fioravanti: Cathedral of the Dormition (Kremlin, Moscow) 1475-79.
"Jerusalem" Ciborium [for Cathedral of the Dormition], 1486.
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 The Moscow Kremlin: Archangel Cathedral
The Archangel Cathedral built under the direction of the Italian architect Alevisio Novi stands on open ground at the edge of mount Borovitsky and may be considered the most original of all the monuments making up the integrally complete ensemble of Cathedral Square in the Kremlin.
The appearance of this subject on the walls of the Archangel Cathedral was apparently due to the criticism of the church’s land ownership launched in 1550 at the “Stoglavy” church Council with the aim of consolidating the single-state policy of the Moscow sovereign.
Archangel Cathedral is a unique cultural monument incorporating the creative spirit of the Italian architect and royal icon painters.
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 Kremlin
Cathedral Square is the heart of the Kremlin.
The Cathedral of the Dormition[?] is the oldest structure, completed in 1479 to be the main church of Moscow and where all the Tsars were crowned.
The Cathedral of the Archangel Michael[?] (1508) is on the south-east of the square, where over fifty members of the Russian Royal families are interred.
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 Archangel Cathedral   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This cathedral, built in 1505-08 by Alevis Novi, was the burial church of the tsars.Here all the Russian princes, grandprinces and tsars from Ivan Kalita onwards had their last resting-place (with the exceptionof Boris Godunov, who, with his wife, is buried inthe Monastery of the Trinity at Sergiev Posad).
The cathedral was surrounded on three sides by galleries; these were demolished in the 18th century with the exception of part of thesouth gallery.
Though built at the beginning of the 16th century, the Archangel Cathedral was paintedonly in the second half of that century.
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 Cathedral of the Archangel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Cathedral of the Archangel (Russian: Архангельский собор, or Arkhangelsky sobor) is the name of several cathedrals in Russia.
The stonework on the walls of the cathedral was clearly influenced by the Italian Renaissance.
There are 54 burials in the cathedral, 46 ornamented whitestone tombstones (1636-1637) and glazed cases made of bronze (1903).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cathedral_of_the_Archangel   (259 words)

  
 Cathedral Sqaure in the Moscow Kremlin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
TheAssumption Cathedral (Cathedral of the Dormition) The oldest and largest church in Cathedral Square-Uspenski Sobor or the Cathedral of the Assumption was commissioned by Ivan the Great to be the main church of Moscow.
The Archangel Cathedral The second largest cathedral, the Cathedral of the Archangel Michael stands on the Southeast corner of the square.
The walls of this cathedral are lined with over 50 coffins of Russian royalty, including the remains of Czar Ivan the Terrible and his sons, as well as the first two Czars of the Romanov Dynasty.
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In 1929, when the cathedral of the Convent of the Ascension was demolished, the remains of tsarinas and princesses were brought to the Cathedral of the Archangel.
The construction of the cathedral began during the reign of Ivan III and was completed in the reign of Grand Duke Vasily Ivanovich.
The Cathedral of the Archangel served as the burial place for the Moscow imperial family up to the end of the 17th century, before the capital was transferred to St. Petersburg.
www.kremlin.ru /eng/articles/Cathedrals02.shtml   (299 words)

  
 Cathedral of St. Michael the Archangel in the Moscow Kremlin, Russia
Also rather uncharacteristic of traditional Russian ecclesiastical architecture is the cathedral's asymmetrical layout, the differing sizes of its silver and gilt domes, the addition of several smaller chapels in the 16th century and the attachment of buttresses along the south wall when it cracked in 1773.
The south wall illustrates the deeds of the Archangel Michael, chosen by the Muscovy Princes to be the heavenly patron of Russian warriors, and the cathedral's four thick pillars are adorned with full-length depictions of early Russian rulers, martyrs and saints.
The interior of the cathedral is crammed full of the tombs of all of Russia's leaders from the 14th to the 18th centuries, excluding Boris Gudonov, who is buried at the Trinity Monastery of St. Sergei, outside Moscow.
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 Moscow Kremlin, Moscow, Russia
The Cathedral of the Annunciation was constructed between 1485 and 1489 by builders from the religious town of Pskov, and is the second oldest cathedral in the Kremlin.
The cathedral's interior is elaborately decorated with icons by some of the great painters of the 15th century; Theophanes the Greek, Prokhor of Gorodets, and Andrei Rublev and the church houses the tombs of all the Grand Princes and Tsars that ruled Russia before the 18th century.
The remaining two Kremlin cathedrals are the Cathedral of the Twelve Apostles and the Cathedral of the Archangel.
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 The Archangel Cathedral
This cathedral, built in 1505-08 by Alevis Novi, was the burial church of the czars.
The demolition of the first Cathedral of the Archangel began on 21 May 1505; the new one built by Alevisio the Younger, a rectangular structure with a system of five domes offset towards the east end, was consecrated on 8 November 1508.
The cathedral was surrounded on three sides by galleries; these were demolished in the 18th century with the exception of part of the south gallery.
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 The Peter and Paul Fortress
The cathedral is one of the principal monuments of the city and was the first church in the city to be built of stone.
Prior to this, princes and tsars were buried in Moscow in the Cathedral of the Archangel Michael, but when St. Petersburg became Russia's capital in 1712, the Peter and Paul Cathedral became the official burial spot.
Beyond that, the cathedral is evidence of the Russians' appreciation for art and architecture as well as the importance of religion throughout their history.
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 World Weavers
The Archangel of Dreams is much easier to invoke by going to her Tower in the Marches than by calling her to Earth, as she rarely manifests on the corporeal plane.
Gabriel's Cathedral is the Citadel of Fire, a shining bronze fortress in the caldera of a volcano that lies between Heaven and the Marches.
Janus's Cathedral is the Canopy of the Groves.
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 The Archangel Cathedral // Самая БОЛЬШАЯ база топиков   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Archangel Cathedral, a five-domed six-pillared edifice, is built in brick, while its sockle and splendid decor are laid in white stone.
The Cathedral holds forty-six tombs of members of the families of the Russian grand princes and tsars, covering the period from the 14th century to the first third of the 18th century.
The Archangel Cathedral will remain forever a living witness of the history of the Kremlin, Moscow and the Russian state and immortal evidence of the talent of its builders and artists who were able to express in architectural forms and painted images the people's boundless love of their mother country.
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 Cathedrals of Russia
The Intercession Cathedral (Pokrovsky Cathedral, better known as St. Basil's Cathedral) was commissioned by Ivan the Terrible and built between 1534 and 1561 in Moscow to commemorate the capture of Khanate of Kazan.
The Cathedral of the Archangels was constructed on Cathedral Square in the Kremlin from 1505 to 1508.
The Cathedral of the Assumption (also known as the Cathedral of the Dormition) is one of several cathedrals on Cathedral Square in the Kremlin.
www.sacred-destinations.com /russia/russia-cathedrals.htm   (488 words)

  
 St. Peter and Paul Cathedral
In pre-Petrine Russia grand princes and tsars were buried in the Cathedral of the Archangel Michael in the Moscow Kremlin.
In 1859 the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul transferred from the jurisdiction of the eparchy to the Building Office of the Ministry of the Imperial Court, and in 1883, with its clergy, it was assigned to the Ecclesiastic Administration of the Court.
In 1927 the cathedral was given over to the Museum of the Revolution and since 1954 it has been under the authority of the State Museum of the History of Leningrad (St. Petersburg).
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 The Archangel Cathedral is the burying place of the Grand Princes and Tsars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Archangel Cathedral is the burying place of the Grand Princes and Tsars.
After three years it was consecrated in the name of Archangel Michael, the Leader of the Heavenly Host, so that the first protector of man's spirit in life would also be their protector in death.
The painting of Prince Vasily II in whose reign the new Archangel Cathedral was built, is given the most honoured place on a column opposite the cathedral's main entrance.
www.moskva.ru /guide/kremlin/kremlin_e8.html   (470 words)

  
 Shreveport: The Cathedral of St. John Berchmans
During school year the weekday 8:15 mass is in the cathedral with the children from the school.
The 12:05 mass is held in St. Michael the Archangel Chapel behind the cathedral and to the left.
Besides being located in Louisiana, the cathedral has another Louisiana connection - being named for an Austrian Jesuit whose appearance in 1836 to a dying nun at the Academy of the Sacred Heart in Grand Coteau, Louisiana, was accepted as the required third miracle for his canonization.
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 The Orthodox Church Part Two
Cathedral of the Dormition, with the Church of the Twelve Apostles in the background.
This cathedral was used as the burial place of the grand princes and tsars until Peter the Great moved the Russian capital to St. Petersburg.
As a later church, it borrows from its older cousins: the drums of the Dormition, the arched gables of the Annunciation, and the mass of the Archangel Michael.
www.dartmouth.edu /~russ15/russia_PI/orthodox_Church_pt2.html   (791 words)

  
 Cathedral of the Archangel - Moscow, Russia
Basil's Cathedral Archangel Cathedral Assumption Cathedral Annunciation Cathedral Christ the Savior Cathedral Andronik Monastery Bogyavlensky Monastery Novodevichy Convent Novospassky Monastery
The Cathedral of the Archangel (Russian: Архангельский собор, or Arkhangelsky Sobor) stands on Cathedral Square in Moscow's Kremlin.
The Cathedral of the Archangel was constructed between 1505 and 1508 under the supervision of an Italian architect Aleviz Fryazin Noviy on the site of a cathedral built in 1333.
www.sacred-destinations.com /russia/cathedral-of-archangel-moscow.htm   (337 words)

  
 The Moscow Kremlin - Kremlin museums
The tombs of the Romanov dynasty are situated near the south-western and north-western pillars.
Among the most respected reliquaries of the Archangel’s Cathedral are the one with the relics of St. Prince Michael Chernigovcky murdered in the Golden Horde in 1254 and the one with the relics of Tsarevich Dmitry, the younger son of Ivan the Terrible.
The particular point of the cathedral’s wall-painting is the circle of tombstone portraits: the ideational portraits of Princes from the Ryurikovich dynasty are painted over their tombs in the lower tier.
www.kreml.ru /en/main/museums/archangel   (517 words)

  
 OCA - Feasts and Saints: Life of Saint
The Synaxis of the Chief of the Heavenly Hosts, Archangel Michael and the Other Heavenly Bodiless Powers: Archangels Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Selaphiel, Jehudiel, Barachiel, and Jeremiel was established at the beginning of the fourth century at the Council of Laodicea, which met several years before the First Ecumenical Council.
In old Kiev at the time of the accepting of Christianity, a cathedral of the Archangel was built, and a monastery also was named for him.
Archangel cathedrals are found at Smolensk, Nizhni Novgorod, Staritsa, at Great Ustiug (beginning of the thirteenth century), and a cathedral at Sviyazhsk.
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 Alexander Palace Time Machine - Feodorovsky Imperial Cathedral
The Fyodorovsky Cathedral was constructed simultaneously with the establishment of the temporary church in the battalion house.
It was decided that it was more appropriate that the new cathedral in the Tsar's residence should imitate the style of the Annunciation Church in Moscow on the Kremlin grounds which had been the personal home church of the first Romanovs.
Parts of the decoration of the cathedral, the ikonostasis, ikons, and some of the church's beautiful furnishings and vestments can be found in different museums in the vincity of St. Petersburg.
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 Russian Orthodox Church oh 3 Saints in Garfield, NL
Archangels [Arkhangely] (1 Thess 4:16) announce about the great and most holy, they reveal the mysteries of the faith, prophecy and understanding of the will of God, they intensify deep faith in people, enlightening their minds with the light of the Holy Gospel.
The Archangel Michael prevented the devil from displaying the body of the holy Prophet Moses to the Jews for idolisation (Jude 1:9).
In old Kiev at the time of the accepting of Christianity, there was erected a cathedral of the Archangel, and a monastery also was built in his name.
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 Belgrade - Cathedrial Church - Church   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Archeological remains were found that show symbols of Christianity and writings found in the vicinity of the Cathedral Church, in the west part of the old city near the Belgrade Castle.
Recently in Istanbul (former Constantinople) as a reminder of the persecution of Serbs from the Belgrade Cathedral church the Dormition of the Holy Theotokas church was built.
In June 1797 the Cathedral church was set on fire, and her renovations were given to a tradesman from Zemun — Jacob Vajni.
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 iconostasis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Cathedral of the Archangel, Moscow, Kremlin, 1505-8; frescoes by Andrej Bogolyubskij, 17th c.; icons 15-17th c.
Cathedral of the Dormition of the Virgin (Uspenski), 1475-9, Moscow, Kremlin; by Aristotle Fioravanti; frescoes 1642-4, icons 14-17th c.
Cathedral of the Virgin of Smolensk (of the icon “Virgin of Smolensk”); Novodevichi Monastery, Moscow, 1524-5; frescoes 16th c., icons 16-17th c.
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 deseretnews.com | Moscow: Parts of this city are a work of art
The Kremlin's Cathedral Square is a matryoshka doll of churches, each grander than the next, each so alive with the faithful as to make you wonder how the chalky old atheists that ran the neighborhood for so many generations could have gotten it so wrong.
Over 700 years, cathedral after cathedral was established around the square, which for centuries was also the political center of Russian power and ritual.
The golden domes of Cathedral of the Annunciation on Cathedral Square of the Kremlin.
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