Cathedral of the Annunciation (Blagoveshchensky Sobor) Moscow

19 July

Main light was turned on at 430am, and the train arrived at Moscow at about half an hour alter. After getting off the train, we headed for the metro station (Rizhskaya). We waited at the metro station for half an hour before the station opened, took route no.1 and got off at the 3rd station (Lubyanka). Walked for about 10 minutes …

We had a lovely overnight train down to Moscow, first class all the way!!!

Early check-in to the hotel so we could get some breakfast, this hotel is a vast improvement on the last, let's just hope they are all like this going forward hey!! So off to breakfast. Great brekky and then back to the room to catch up on the washing. All done and …

... for the holiest cathedrals in Russia.  While we were not allowed inside the government buildings, we could go inside both the Cathedral of the Annunciation and the Cathedral of the Archangel Michael where Ivan the Terrible was buried.   ...

... a congregation, just a series of elaborately decorated rooms of uncertain purpose. The next stop is the Armoury, a repository of Russian wealth and foreign gifts. Massed arrays of elaborate silverwork vie for your attention alongside the wedding ...

... of the Square are: Cathedral of the Assumption (1475-79); Cathedral of the Archangel (1505-1508) and Cathedral of the Annunciation (1484-89). The 266 foot tall Bell Tower of Ivan the Great was constructed in 1508 to serve the cathedrals in Cathedral ...

... 305;n kaçırmayınız. Oradan çıkınca yine program gereği  hemen yakında bulunan The Cathedral of the Annunciation ( Yükseliş Kilisesi ), The Church of the Twelve Apostles (12 havari Kilisesi ) ve 81 m ...

... the Great Bell Tower. We also saw the Cathedral of the Archangel (burial place for the Tzar's until 1712), Cathedral of the Annunciation (essentially the royal chapel), Cathedral of the Assumption (where the Tzar's and Tzarina's were crowned and the ...