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	Palace of Facets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Palace of Facets (1487-91), a piece of Cinquecento in the heart of Moscow.
		Named after its distinctive stonework facade, the Palace of Facets is all that is left of a larger royal palace, commissioned by Ivan III in 1485 and finished six years later.
		The Palace of the Facets is the work of two Italian Renaissance architects, Marco Ruffo and Pietro Solario.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Palace_of_Facets (285 words)

	Palace of the Facets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Palace of Facets is the oldest secular building, not only in the Kremlinbut in the whole of Moscow.
		The Palace of Facets is a large chamber with high grained vaults restingon a thick central rectangular pillar.
		The Palace of Facets served as the tsar's audience chamberand banqueting hall.
	www.moscowkremlin.ru /ns/english/36.html (164 words)

	Moscow Kremlin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There are two domestic churches of the Metropolitans and Patriarchs of Moscow, the Cathedral of the Twelve Apostles (1653-56) and the one-domed exquisite church of the Deposition of the Virgin’s Robe, built by Pskov artisans over the years 1484-88 and featuring superb icons and frescoes from 1627 and 1644.
		The oldest secular structure still standing is the Palace of Facets (1491), which holds the imperial thrones, it was commissioned by Ivan III (the Great).
		The original Terem Palace was commissioned by Ivan III, but most of the existing palace was built in the 17th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moscow_Kremlin (862 words)

	Grand Kremlin Palace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Grand Kremlin Palace (Большой Кремлевский дворец Bolshoi Kremlyovski Dvorets), also translated Great Kremlin Palace, was built from 1837 to 1851 in Moscow, Russia on the site of the estate of the Grand Princes, which had been established in the 14th century on Borovitsky Hill.
		The Grand Kremlin Palace was formerly the tsar's Moscow residence.
		It also leads to the Palace of Facets, the Tsarina's Golden Chamber, Terem Palace, the Winter Palace, and the Palace of Congresses.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grand_Kremlin_Palace (370 words)

	Facet Arthritis -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The orgainzation of naturally occurring facets was key to early developments in crystallography, since they reflect the underlying symmetry of the crystal structure.
		Facets, Palace of Category:Buildings in Moscow fr:Palais à Facettes ru:Грановитая палата
		The big revelation in "Facets" is that Curzon Dax, who was the person in charge of assessing Jadzia's worthiness for a Joining, flunked Jadzia from the program deliberately because he was very attracted to her, only to reinstate her later out of guilt.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/51/facet-arthritis.html (1312 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		A palace is an important urban residence of a royal or noble family, with its origins as the executive power center of a kingdom.
		The palaces were built in the beginning of the 18th century by the arch-bishop of Cologne, Clemens August I. of the Wittelsbach family.
		In the 19th century, the Palace of the Facets, along with the Terem Palace, was incorporated in..
	aynurkece.info /browse.php?title=P/PA/PAL (11149 words)

	The Kremlin : Kremlin Pictures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		It was connected by a passage at the gallery level with the palace of the grand prince and laterwith the tsar's residence.
		The Palace of Facets is the oldest secular building, not only in the Kremlin but in the whole of Moscow.
		The church, which was linkedby a staircase with the Patriarch's Palace, served as the domestic chapel of the metropolitans and patriarchs.
	summoning.ru /photos_eng/kremlin.shtml (976 words)

	Facet Joint Pain -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		This arrangement of 57 facets was calculated by Marcel Tolkowsky in 1919.
		The aim with a facetted cut is to produce an article that sparkles with internally reflected light, and that shows off the "fire" of the stone.
		In a faceted classification, subjects are divided into facets (aspects), and class numbers are synthesised from the classifications.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/51/facet-joint-pain.html (1097 words)

	The Palaces of the Moscow Kremlin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		It was designed to link the older Terem Palace and Palace of Facets, with its new and glorious reception halls, a ceremonial red staircase, and private Imperial Apartments.
		Next to the Palace of the Facets, cite of the ceremonial thrones, is the household of the Czar, Terem Palace.
		The original Terem Palace was commissioned by Ivan the Great, nearly 500 years ago, but most of the palace you see today was built in the 17th Century by the first two Czars of the Romanov Dynasty, Czars Mikhail and Alexey.
	uts.cc.utexas.edu /~powellm/palaces.html (170 words)

	The Palace of Facets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Palace of Facets is another palace on the ground of the Moscow Kremlin.
		Two of the rooms in this palace are shown on this page.
		His advisers and members of his court all clustered against the wall, dwarfed by a giant ceiling, every inch of it covered by scenes from the Bible, all of it lighted by four bronze chandeliers.
	uts.cc.utexas.edu /~powellm/facets.html (237 words)

	Contemporaries of the Kremlin
		The Dormition Cathedral,the Annunciation Cathedral and the FacetedHall (Palace of the Facets) were builtduring his reign.
		Ivan III was buried in the ArchangelMichael Cathedral.
		He took part in the construction of the walls andtowers of the Kremlin, and built the Palace ofthe Facets together with Marco Fryazin.
	www.moscowkremlin.ru /ns/english/people.html (1345 words)

	Faceted Palace in the Moscow Kremlin, Russia
		One of the three marvelously ornate Imperial palaces within the Kremlin walls, the Palace of Facets is the oldest surviving secular building in Moscow.
		The Palace was built between 1487 and 1491 for Ivan III by Russian craftsmen under the supervision of the famous Italian architects Marco Ruffo and Pietro Antonio Solario.
		On the Palace's 2nd floor, the tiny window of a secret chamber, or tainik in Russian, can be seen, where legend has it the Tsarinas and princesses would watch the ceremonies taking place in the main hall and on Cathedral Square, as contemporary customs prevented them from taking part.
	www.moscow-taxi.com /sightseeing/kremlin/faceted-palace.html (400 words)

	Kremlin
		Kremlin is the Russian word for "citadel" and can refer to any major fortified complex found in Russian cities.
		But it is used almost exclusively for the Kremlin Palaces and Kremlin Cathedrals overlooking Red Square in Moscow.
		The oldest secular structure still standing is the Palace of Facets[?] (1491), which holds the imperial thrones, it was commissioned by Ivan IV (the Terrible).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/kr/Kremlin.html (486 words)

	Traveller - Library Data: C
		In 758, negligence on the part of the population of the Myteria-Seru undersea arcology caused it to be completely flooded during a seismic disturbance, killing all of the 1.5 million inhabitants.
		As Viceroy of the Darmine Totality, Chandra was one of the most powerful provincial leaders in the Rule of Man. Upon hearing of Madeline's stroke in -2046, he travelled to Hub/Ershur, and immediately began to covertly gather support within the Council of Noble Officers.
		Apparently unsuited to devious palace politics but still recognizing the need to consolidate the power of the fledgling Imperium, Cleon abdicated in favor of his brilliant chancellor, Artemsus Lentuli.
	gateway.pocketempires.com /c.htm (5799 words)

	Palace of the Facets
		The name of the palace, which is almost exactly square in plan, comes from the faceted limestone blocks which pattern the main front - a form of rustication which originated in the Early Italian Renaissance.
		The Palace of Facets is a large chamber with high grained vaults resting on a thick central rectangular pillar.
		In 1882 the Palekh painters, the Belousov brothers, restored the murals of the Palace of Facets from the copies made 200 years previously by Simon Ushakov.
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/hornton/890/Moscow/facets.html (373 words)

	Great Kremlin Palace in the Moscow Kremlin, Russia
		The palace on view today was commissioned in 1837 by Emperor Nicholas I, but stands on the site of the estate of the Grand Princes, established as far back as the 14th century.
		Intended to emphasize the greatness of the Russian autocracy, the palace was built on an enormous scale by the Emperor's favourite architect, creator of the Armory building and the Church of Christ the Savior, Konstantin Ton.
		In Soviet times, two of the Grand Kremlin Palace halls, the Alexandrovsky (St. Alexander) and Andreyevsky (St. Andrew) Halls, were combined into a single chamber to accommodate meetings and conferences of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and later of the Russian Federation.
	www.moscow-taxi.com /sightseeing/kremlin/great-kremlin-palace.html (868 words)

	RNG - Excursions - Moscow - The Center of Orthodox Religion
		The Kremlin is Buckingham Palace, the White House, the Elysee Palace, at once the Vatican, Versailles and the Parthenon.
		Some other examples of Russian architecture are: Palace of Facets, the Church of the Deposition of the Robe, the bell Tower of Ivan the Great and the Spasskaya (Savoir) Tower, the Tsar Bell and Tsar Cannon.
		The Palace of the Soviet has never been built, but the marble of the Cathedral was used to decorate several Moscow metro stations and its jasper columns now grace Moscow University.
	www.russia-travel.com /excursions/moscow/religion (1019 words)

	RNG - Excursions - Moscow - Empire Treasures
		Many artifacts in the Armory collection are ambassadorial gifts to Russian Tars from England, Holland, Sweden and France, presented at the special ceremonies that were held in the Palace of Facets in the Kremlin.
		Built in the first half of the 19th century in neo-Byzantine style by Ton, the favorite architect of Nicholas I, the Palace was the Tsars’ Residence in Moscow.
		Visits to Grand Kremlin Palace and Palace of Facets are possible by special request in groups of max.
	www.russia-travel.com /excursions/moscow/empire (666 words)

	The State Hermitage Museum: Exhibitions
		An exhibition which has opened in the Concert Hall of the Winter Palace (Room ¹ 190) is devoted to the career of court painter Mihaly Zichy (1827 - 1906).
		Mihaly Zichy was born in Hungary in 1827.
		The water color Formal Dinner in the Palace of Facets (1883) illustrates the banquet on the occasion of the coronation of Emperor Alexander III in the Moscow Kremlin.
	www.hermitagemuseum.org /html_En/04/2005/hm4_1_116.html (693 words)

	Chapter 10 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		boiarskii, or foreigner, or palace court official, and that is established conclusively at trial and investigation: compile for them a decree for such a dishonor [as follows]—[for dishonoring] the patriarch, beat [the guilty party] with bastinadoes; [for dishonoring] a metropolitan, imprison [the guilty party]; [for dishonoring] an archbishop and bishop, also imprison [the guilty party].
		deti boiarskie, or foreigners, or palace court officials, or scribes, or people of any other ranks who have been certified [to receive] the sovereign's cash salary, and that is established conclusively after trial or investigation: they shall exact their dishonor compensation from those people who dishonor them.
		Concerning the fees from judicial cases that have been granted to the custodians of [the sovereign's] tents and palace court officials: they shall collect those fees according to statute as before, but collect the remaining fees for the sovereign's treasury.
	lamar.colostate.edu /~aksmith/HY438/ulozh/Chapter_10.htm (7785 words)

	Full article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The fame of the miracles worked by this icon became so great that the Sovereign and Grand Prince of Moscow Vasily III ordered the construction of a large stone church in Tikhvin.
		Work on the cathedral started in 1510: the Italian architect Fryazin (according to some sources from Lombardy, to others from Venice), who also designed the Palace of Facets in the Moscow Kremlin, and the contractor Dmitry Syrkov were sent to Tikhvin from Moscow.
		The work progressed quickly and it was only five years later that the consecration of the cathedral took place.
	www.whererussia.com /spb/fullarticle?id=4882 (1783 words)

	Full article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Today the kremlin is not simply a monument of Russian military-defensive architecture, but an entire historical and architectural record from the 11th to 19th centuries.
		Behind Palace Tower is Spassky Tower, which links the kremlin to the residential end of Novgorod; at one time one of the kremlin’s streets passed through it.
		The unique system of Petrovsky Docks, built in Kronshtadt in 1752, was envied all over the world; instead of taking several days, the water drained from the docks in only six hours, flowing from the main dock to a pool at a lower level, where Russia’s first steam engine was in operation.
	www.whererussia.com /spb/fullarticle?id=2161 (1646 words)

	Moscow Scenes
		Armory Palace, Blagoveshchenskii Cathedral, Bell Towers of Ivan III, Arkhangel'skii Cathedral,
		Medieval domes of Terem Palace rise behind 1950s-modern Palace of Congresses
		) Granovitaia Palata [Palace of Facets], domes of Terem church,
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~kimball/MVA.lxt.htm (253 words)

	Nirvana Sutra :: Appreciation of the "Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra"
		The Palace chamber in which the Buddha was situated
		It was made of jewels of various colors and was decorated with all kinds of precious flowers.
		The various adornments emanated lights like clouds; the masses of their reflections from within the Palace formed banners.
	www.nirvanasutra.org.uk /relatedmaterial.htm (11314 words)

	Moscow - CITIES OF EUROPE - Moscow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Tower and bridge were named after the Mediaeval Trinity-Sergius Monastery 70km north of Moscow.
		Built for Empress Yelizaveta Petrovna as a winter palace, 1753.
		Lenin and his family lived and worked here 1918-22.
	www.netgate.co.uk /moscow.htm (2003 words)

	Jacobus PAST STORIES
		What old William Rickey stashed away, and what Jamie Rickey pulled out a few years ago, was a very rare and remarkable document: the Vernon Township Tax Assessment list for the year 1816--185 years ago.
		One of the many interesting facets of this document are the names represented on it.
		An old Roman Emperor was said to have had a dining room where the table was made to rise from the floor or disappear at pleasure.
	www.vernonstories.com /01jvb.htm (21224 words)

	Moscow tours - Russia Travel Group
		RTG invites you to see the historical center of Moscow on a board of the famous river buses.
		During this unforgettable 1.5 hour excursion you will see Moscow Kremlin, Big Stone Bridge, Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Novodevichy Monastery, Red October Factory (Confectionary), monument to the Peter I, Krimsky Bridge, Gorky Park, Sparrow Hills, Moscow University, Ostankino TV Tower, Luzhniki stadium and many estates, palaces and churches.
		RTG presents its Military tour during which you will see KGB museum, World War II Museum on Poklonnaya Gora, Museum of Revolutions, Cosmonaut Training Center of the Star Town and memorable sights of the hero-city Volgograd.
	www.r-tg.com /two_capitals/moscow/98.html (353 words)

	David Douglas Duncan
		"[T]he Kremlin's ancient Throne Room in the Palace of Facets [as seen in 1956, was].
		rivalled only by the adjoining palace of the Tzars." The Kremlin, p.
		Beginnings / DDD Portraits / Dogs / LIFE / Martin Gray / Other Visions / Picasso
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /exhibitions/online/ddd/gallery/russia/075.html (76 words)

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