Cathedral of St. Basil, begun by Ivan the Terrible in 1554, Moscow, Russia – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Cathedral of St. Basil, begun by Ivan the Terrible in 1554, Moscow, Russia
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The Cathedral of St. Basil stands at the south end of Red Square in Moscow, and its cluster of brightly colored, onion-domed towers has no close match in the city's skyline. The caption card credits its start to Ivan the Terrible in 1554, a date that fits the tsar's campaigns of the period, including his conquest of the Khanate of Kazan in 1552. The building became a lasting symbol of Moscow and of Russia. The caption card dates this view to around 1918, a turbulent year when the Bolsheviks were about to move the national capital back to Moscow.
| Created / published | c1918 Feb. 27. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | J228409 U.S. Copyright Office This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,144 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-159280 |
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