Art photos

Vaults of St. Basil's Chapel

Interior of one of chapels of the Cathedral of Intercession of the Virgin on the Moat (St. Basil’s Cathedral) that was adjacent to the already constructed temple on the Red Square in 1588, , when Church Assembly canonized Basil as a saint. The small chapel from brick and stone was built during the reign of Tsar Feodor right on the grave of Basil the Blessed, a street prophet, vagrant, worshipped in Moscow at the time who had died in 1557, during construction of the famous cathedral commissioned by his father, Ivan IV The Terrible.