[St. Basil Cathedral, Moscow, Russia] – Historic Print
![[St. Basil Cathedral, Moscow, Russia], [between 1890 and 1900] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f9/f96a13829a74-L.webp)
(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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This rare historic print captures [St. Basil Cathedral, Moscow, Russia] in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[St. Basil Cathedral, Moscow, Russia]
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St. Basil's Cathedral, with its cluster of bulbous, brightly striped domes, stands at the south end of Red Square in Moscow. Ivan IV, known as Ivan the Terrible, had it built in the 1550s to mark his conquest of Kazan, and its nine chapels surround a central tower. This print comes from the 1890s, when the photochrom process, a Swiss method that combined photography with several lithographic color stones, gave views like this a soft, painted look. The French and Cyrillic captions suggest the image was meant for the travel trade and for buyers in Europe as well as Russia.
| Created / published | [between 1890 and 1900] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom. |
| Genre | Photochrom prints Color 1890-1900. |
| Notes | No. 8852. Captioned in French and Cyrillic. |
| Subjects | Cathedrals--Russia (Federation)--Moscow--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,277 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-178618 |
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