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& # 8220 ; The history of Moscow & # 8221 ;

Executor: Executor:
Leonova Nastya, 8 & # 8220 ; B & # 8221 ; Leonova Nastya, 8 “B”

Moscow was fist mentioned in the histories in 1147. At that clip it was a little frontier station. It is the official day of the month of the foundation of Moscow ; Thought the colony had been at that place for some clip before. It was fortified and became a market town in the late 12th
century. The town was about to tally destroyed in 1237 and 1293 during the Tatar invasion. It was once more captured by the Tatars in 1382. And it was Moscow Prince Dmitry Donskoy who led the Russian military personnels to a decisive triumph over the encroacher in the conflict of Kulikovo field in 1380.

By the 15th
century Moscow turned into a affluent metropolis. It was under Ivan & # 1064 ; that Moscow became the capital of the province of Muscovy. At that clip the Kremlin

Was rebuilt and the Kremlin Cathedrals were erected.

By the 15th
century Moscow turned into a affluent metropolis. It was under Ivan & # 1064 ; that Moscow became the capital of the province of Muscovy at the clip the Kremlin was rebuilt and the Kremlin Cathedrals were erected.

During the clip of Troubles Moscow was occupied by the Polish encroachers but they were routed by the popular levy headed by Minin and Pozharsky.

By the terminal of the 15th
century Moscow extended its regulation over most of cardinal and northern Russia. Its swayers continued to construct munitions around it.

The transportation of the capital by Peter the Great to St.Petersburg in 1712 brought a period of diminution to Moscow.

Moscow is known for its beautiful old Cathedrals, churches and monasteries. Some of them day of the month from the 15th to the seventeenth centuries. The oldest portion of Moscow is the Kremlin. This is the chief tourer attractive force in Moscow the Kremlin stands at the bosom of the metropolis. The word & # 8220 ; Kremlin & # 8221 ; means & # 8220 ; fortress & # 8221 ; , and the Moscow Kremlin usage to be a fortress. In the 15th
century, by order of expansive duke Ivan & # 1064 ; the Kremlin was surrounded by a new redbrick wall.

I have a particular liking for the Kremlin and St. Basil & # 8217 ; s Cathedral. They are chef-d’oeuvres of ancient Russian architecture. The chief Kremlin tower, the Spasskaya Tower, has become the symbol of the state. On the district of the Kremlin you can see old Cathedrals. The Bell Tower of Ivan the Great, the Palace of Congresses, the Tsar-Cannon and the Tsar-Bell, the biggest cannon and bell in the universe. St. Basil & # 8217 ; s Cathedral was built in the mid & # 8211 ; 16th
century in memory of the triumph over Kazan. There is a fable that Ivan the Terrible blinded the designers Burma and Postnik, because he didn & # 8217 ; t want them to make another chef-d’oeuvre.

The Moscow Kremlin is the ancient Centre of Moscow. It is located on Borovitsky Hill on the left lank the Moskva river and considered one of the most beautiful architectural ensemb

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In 1156 the Kremlin was fortified with bulwarks and in 1367 white rock towers and walls were erected. Brick edifices were added between 1485 and 1495.

The Moscow Kremlin contains all right illustrations of Russian architecture of the 15th
to 17th
centuries the Cathedrals of the Domination, the Annunciation and the Archangel. Ivan the Great & # 8217 ; s Bell Tower, the Faceted Palace, the Terem Palace, the Senate Building, the Nikolskaya, the Trinity and the Boroviskaya Towers. The Tsar Cannon and the Tsar Bell are singular accomplishments of Russian cost ironwork.

Cathedral Square is the ancient Centre of the Kremlin Architectural ensemble. The chief Kremlin cathedrals are located here. The Tsars were crowned in the Cathedral of the Domination and buried in the Archangel Cathedral.

The Tsar would go forth the Facetted Palace from the Red Porch. After services in the Cathedral of the Domination a emanation would traverse Cathedral Square.

The Cathedral of the Domination was built by Halian designer Aristotle Fioravanti from 1475-1479 in the manner of the Russian 12th
century The Cathedral of the Domination at Vladimir. Unique illustrations of ancient art are preserved here ; the Byzantine icon of the Virgin of

Vladimir and the icons of St. George and the Holy Trinity. The Cathedral of the Domination was the most of import in Ancient Rus. The first Russian Tsar Ivan the Great was crowned here.

The Archangel Cathedral, built by Halian designer Alevisio Nove in 1505-1509 served as the burial topographic point of Russian Tsars and expansive princes. Here you can see the ancient head-stone of Ivan Kalita.

The cathedral contains the priceless 15th
-century icon of the Archangel Michael, assumed to be the work of Andrei Rublyov.

The Cathedral of the Annunciation was built in the Late 14th
and early 15th
centuries. In the 1480s, during the reign of Ivan & # 1064 ; , Pskov maestro craftsmen constructed a new three domed brick church on the foundations of on older construction. The church was rebuilt in 1562-1564 after

A fire, and another two domes and four corner side-chapels with cupolas were added. The Cathedral walls were pointed by Feodosii and his followings in 1508. The 2nd and 3rd grade of icons were pointed in 1405 by Andrei Rublyov, Theophanes the Grecian and Prokhor of Gorodets.

Ivan the Great & # 8217 ; s Bell Tower is regarded as a wonder of early 16th
-century architecture. It was built in 1505-08 by Bon Friazin, and two extra grades were added in 1600 by order of Boris Godunov. This was the Kremlin & # 8217 ; s chief ticker tower. The Faceted Palace is the oldest secular edifice in Moscow, erected by designers Marco Ruffo and Pietro Antonio Solari in 1487-91. The faceted rock frontage after which named overlooks Cathedral Palace.

The Kremlin is the bosom of Moscow. It is the oldest historical and architectural Centre of Moscow.