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    The document provides background information on Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow. It was officially named "The Cathedral of the Intercession of the Virgin by the Moat" but is more commonly known as St. Basil's. It was ordered by Ivan the Terrible to commemorate his capture of Kazan in 1552 and completed in 1560. Little is reliably known about its builders beyond their names, and legends that Ivan had them blinded are considered unlikely.

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    The document provides background information on Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow. It was officially named "The Cathedral of the Intercession of the Virgin by the Moat" but is more commonly known as St. Basil's. It was ordered by Ivan the Terrible to commemorate his capture of Kazan in 1552 and completed in 1560. Little is reliably known about its builders beyond their names, and legends that Ivan had them blinded are considered unlikely.

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    Cathedral: Saint Basil

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    The document provides background information on Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow. It was officially named "The Cathedral of the Intercession of the Virgin by the Moat" but is more commonly known as St. Basil's. It was ordered by Ivan the Terrible to commemorate his capture of Kazan in 1552 and completed in 1560. Little is reliably known about its builders beyond their names, and legends that Ivan had them blinded are considered unlikely.

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    SAINT BASIL

    CATHEDRAL
    ABOUT THE
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    Welcome to Moscow! Although it's known to everyone as St. Basil's, this legendary building is o cially called " e Cathedral of the Intercession of the Virgin by the Moat". e popular alternative refers to Basil the Blessed, a Muscovite 'holy fool' who was buried on the site (in the Trinity Cathedral that once stood here) a few years before the present building was erected. e Cathedral was ordered by Ivan the Terrible to mark the 1552 capture of Kazan from Mongol forces. It was completed in 1560. at's pretty much all the genuine history that's known about this celebrated landmark. ere, however, scores of legends. Nothing is known about the builders, Barma and Postnik Yakovlev, except their names and the dubious legend that Ivan had them blinded so that they could not create anything to compare. Historians unanimously state that this is nothing but urban folklore.

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