One more beautiful place in Moscow that you should visit, St. Basil.
You won't pass this place without capture the beauty of St. Basil with your camera. The St. Basil's Cathedral, the bulbous domes, ribbed, cut with facets like pineapples, with varied colors, looks like a cave with upside down stalagtites. At the interior, a museum evokes the construction of the church and the historical events which are attached to it.
Another travel place full of art in Moscow is The Cathedral of the Annunciation in the Kremlin (1484-1489) was reserved for the baptism and the marriage of the Tsars.
The ground is covered with jasper offered by a Shah of Persia, the walls and the cupolas are decorated with frescos (1508).The north and west entrances from the parvise are decorated with whitestone portals of the 16th century. The fretwork is clearly influenced by the Italian Renaissance architecture. The bronze doors of the north and west portals are decorated with gold foil. The floor of the Cathedral of the Annunciation is made of jasper, which was brought from a cathedral in Rostov Velikiy in the 16th century. The walls contain fragments of murals, painted by Theodosius. You can have a nice travel meanwhile know more about the history of this fantastic cathedral.
Try your best to have a walk in Red Square when you travel to Moscow because it is the most famous city square in Moscow, and arguably one of the most famous in the world.
Trust me, you won't regret that.The Red Square is the vastest of the city (690x130 metres). It is related to many events of the history of the country.As major streets of Moscow radiate from here in all directions, being promoted to major highways outside the city, the Red Square is often considered the central square of Moscow and of all Russia.
Each building in Red Square is a legend in its own right. One of these is Lenin's Mausoleum, where the embalmed body of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union, is displayed. Nearby is the elaborate brightly-domed Saint Basil's Cathedral and also the palaces and cathedrals of the Kremlin.
On the eastern side of the square is the GUM department store, and next to it the restored Kazan Cathedral. The northern side is occupied by the State Historical Museum.
The only sculptured monument on the square is a bronze statue of Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky, who helped to clear Moscow from the Polish invaders in 1612, during the Times of Trouble. Nearby is the so-called Lobnoye Mesto, a circular platform where public ceremonies used to take place. Both the Minin and Pozharskiy statue and the Lobnoye Mesto were moved to their current locations to facilitate the large military parades of the Soviet era. The square itself is around 330 meters.
I can say that the night view in here is eye-catching.Bring along your loved one and enjoy the sight in Moscow Kremlin.
As you can see in this picture, it's the Vodovzvodnaya Tower anchors the Southwest corner of the Moscow Kremlin located in The Southern Wall of the Moscow Kremlin and the Moscow River.The Kremlin is risen to forty meters height, on left bank of Moskova; its red brick enclosure is a 2235 meters length, opening with 5 doors and punctuated of 19 towers. True historical cradle of the City, the Kremlin is a city in the city with its churches, its palaces, its administrative buildings, its new functional constructions used by the public authorities. Its construction dates from XIIth century. Although already such a long time, the beauty of this place still remains the same.
Continue talking about Moscow, The Monastery of Novodievitchi was founded at the beginning of XVIth century.
From its foundation, the Monastery of Novodievitchi includes a cemetery where they traditionally buries the representatives of the religious and feudal aristocracy of Moscow, then starting from XIXth century, intellectuals and great merchants. In the necropolis, the tombs of Gogol, Tchekov, Maïakovski, Prokofiev, Eisenstein, Khrouchtchev are preserved.It is in this monastery that Boris Godounov was proclaimed Tsar, in 1598 and that Peter the Great made lock up his Eudoxia wife and his Sofia sister, in 1689. Napoleon took over the convent in 1812 (First time I knew the history of Napoleon Bonaparte from the Japan manga that I read titled "Eroica" from Riyoko Ikeda in my childhood time). All the buildings are in Muscovite baroque style with a profusion of white stone elements on red brick walls background.
When we talk about Moscow, we straightly remember about Russia, the amazing travel place that never make us bore.
Moscow is the barometer and nucleus of the changes sweeping through Russia. The populace now prefer international name brands to monolithic department stores, and the beautiful churches. But the real flavor of this city is in its nooks and crannies, each of them unique.The Cathedral of Dormition is risen at the site of the first stone cathedral built in Moscow by Ivan Kalita in XIVth century. Gigantic building for its time, the cathedral of Dormition was built into 1475-1479 by the Italian architect Aristotle Fioravanti. During four centuries Dormition remained the main cathedral of Russia. It is here that were held crownings of tsars and emperors. The most well-known art in here is the plaza in front of the Cathedral which is the setting for the famous Coronation Scene in Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov. If you ever watch the famous "Get Smart" movie that features Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, and Dwayne Johnson, you will find out many scenes were taken in Moscow.
