Moscow Kremlin. A brief excursion Bashny.Net

Nine centuries on the earth Russian and Moscow, it seems, does not feel its old age, looking more to the future than to the past. But there is a place in Moscow where each period of its centuries-old history, each turn of her difficult fate have left their indelible mark. This place - the Moscow Kremlin.

What is the Moscow Kremlin - this amazing city-fortress in the center of Moscow? Stronghold power, an ancient spiritual center of Moscow and Russia, its treasure trove of art and antiquities? It is hardly possible to find a comprehensive response. Apparently, always behind it will remain something unsaid, some hidden meaning and significance. Incorporating the history of the country, becoming a witness and participant in all of its most important events, the Kremlin has turned into an all-Russian national shrine, she has become a symbol of Moscow and all Russia.

I propose to take a short tour of the Kremlin. In early April, I was able to go there and something to capture))

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Ivan the Great Bell Ensemble

The architectural ensemble of the Ivan the Great Bell, the Assumption Belfry and the Filaret Annex for centuries is an architectural dominant center of the capital.
The Moscow Kremlin Museums, a draft museumification bell tower and the opening of the exhibition devoted to the architectural history of the Kremlin.

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Archangel Cathedral

Generic tomb of the great Moscow princes and kings. Here lie the grand dukes Ivan Kalita, Dmitry Donskoy, Ivan III, Ivan the Terrible, Tsarevich Dmitry, Tsars Mikhail and Alexey Romanov. Just a dynastic necropolis of 47 graves and two crabs.
Pillars and walls of the cathedral is decorated with a unique "Portrait Gallery" Moscow's rulers and their illustrious ancestors. A local tier high iconostasis, you can see the old image of "Archangel Michael with glorious works", created in the era of the Battle of Kulikov.

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Assumption Cathedral

Over the centuries - the main temple of the Russian state. The cathedral wedding ceremony took place on the throne, the coronation of emperors, heads of the Russian Orthodox Church, the burial metropolitans and patriarchs.
Today in the Dormition Cathedral of the Kremlin you can see the majestic iconostasis ensemble of monumental paintings and one of the largest collections in Russia especially honored and artistically valuable icons, the famous Praying place of Ivan the Terrible, a unique historical necropolis.

Annunciation Cathedral

Personal, home church of great Moscow princes and kings.
Great value is ensemble of monumental painting of the Cathedral of the time of Ivan the Terrible and the ancient iconostasis. Many researchers believe that the icon of the Deesis painted by the famous Theophanes the Greek, and some icons of the festival row - the greatest medieval Russian painter Andrei Rublev