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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia

 

Region: Eastern  Europa

Area total: 6,592,800 km2

Coast line:  Sea of Okhotsk, Bering Sea, Barents Sea

Capital: Moscow

 

The Archangel Michael Cathedral

 is a Russian Orthodox church dedicated to the Archangel Michael. It is located in Cathedral Square of the Moscow Kremlin in Russia

between the Great Kremlin Palace and the Ivan the Great Bell Tower.

It was the main necropolis for members of the Tsars of Russia until the relocation of the capital to St. Petersburg.

 

 

Christ the Saviour Cathedral.

 

 

Christ the Saviour Cathedral - interior

 

 

Church of the Protection of the Theotokos in Fiiyovsky  Park

 

 

Nizhny-Novgorod Orthodox church

 

 

Nizhny-Novgorod Orthodox church

 

 

Novodevichy Convent in Moscow

In 2004, it was proclaimed a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

 

 

Novospassky Monastery

It was the first monastery to be founded in Moscow in the early 14th century. The Saviour Church was its original katholikon.

Upon its removal to the left bank of the Moskva River in 1491, the abbey was renamed the New Saviour, to distinguish it from the older one in the Kremlin.

 

 

The Church of the Holy Sign, Dubrovitsy, Moscow region

 

 

The onion domes the Annunciation Cathedral

is aRussian Orthodox church dedicated to the Annunciation of the Theotokos. It is located on the southwest side of Cathedral Square of the Moscow Kremlin in Russia, where it connects directly to the main building of the complex of the Grand Kremlin Palace, adjacent to the Palace of Facets.

It was originally the personal chapel for the Muscovite tsars, and its abbot remained a personal confessor of the Russian royal family until the early 20th century.

 

 

The Virgin Monastery

 

 

Church of Saints Mikhail and Fyodor, Martyrs of Chernigov

 

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