Russia 2008,Saint Basil's the Blessed Cathedral,Kremlin Red Squire,Sc 7076,MNH

Item Specifics

Country

Russia

Catalog Number

7076

Stamp Type

General Issue

Condition

Mint (NH)

Centering

XF/Superb

Stamp Format

Single

Year of Issue

2008

Item Description

VF Mnh**
Russia 2008,Saint Basil's the Blessed Cathedral,Kremlin Red Squire,Sc # 7076,VF MNH**

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Russia 2008,Saint Basil's Cathedral,Moscow Red Squire,Unique Kremlin Ensemble,Sc # 7076,MNH**

 Remarkable piece of 16th Century Architecture !! 
 
The
Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed (Russian: собо́р Васи́лия Блаже́нного,
Sobor Vasiliya Blazhennovo), commonly known as Saint Basil's Cathedral,
is a church in Red Square in Moscow, Russia and is one of the most
popular symbols of the country. The building, now a museum, is
officially known as the Cathedral of the Intercession of the Most Holy
Theotokos on the Moat (Собо́р Покрова́ Пресвято́й Богоро́дицы, что на
Рву, Sobor Pokrova Presvyatoy Bogoroditsy, chto na Rvu) or Pokrovsky
Cathedral (Покро́вский собо́р).It was built from 1555–1561 on orders
from Ivan the Terrible and commemorates the capture of Kazan and
Astrakhan. It was the city's tallest building until the completion of
the Ivan the Great Bell Tower in 1600. The Saint Basil's Cathedral is
not to be confused with the Moscow Kremlin.

The original
building, known as Trinity Church and later Trinity Cathedral, contained
eight churches arranged around a ninth, central church of Intercession;
a tenth church was erected in 1588 over the grave of venerated local
saint Vasily (Basil). In the 16th and 17th centuries, the church,
perceived (as with all churches in Byzantine Christianity) as the
earthly symbol of the Heavenly City, was popularly known as the
"Jerusalem" and served as an allegory of the Jerusalem Temple in the
annual Palm Sunday parade attended by the Patriarch of Moscow and the
tsar.

The building is shaped like the flame of a bonfire rising
into the sky, a design that has no parallel in Russian architecture.
Dmitry Shvidkovsky, in his book Russian Architecture and the West,
states that "it is like no other Russian building. Nothing similar can
be found in the entire millennium of Byzantine tradition from the fifth
to the fifteenth century ... a strangeness that astonishes by its
unexpectedness, complexity and dazzling interleaving of the manifold
details of its design." The cathedral foreshadowed the climax of Russian
national architecture in the 17th century.

As part of the
program of state atheism, the church was confiscated from the Russian
Orthodox community as part of the Soviet Union's anti-theist campaigns
and has operated as a division of the State Historical Museum since
1928. It was completely secularized in 1929 and remains a federal
property of the Russian Federation. The church has been part of the
Moscow Kremlin and Red Square UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1990. It
is not actually within the Kremlin, but often served as a visual metonym
for Russia in western media throughout the Cold War and to the modern
day.  __


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