Museums and monumets of culture of Moscow
The Cathedral of Pokrova na Rvu
Vasily
Blazhenny cathedral (Pokrovsky
Cathedral, the
Cathedral of
Pokrova na Rvu) Vasily
Blazhenny temple.
One of the most known temples of
POKROSKY
CATHEDRAL, (the cathedral of Pokrova na Rvu or its popular but later
name - 
Vasily
Blazhenny's temple), is in
It
was constructed as a monument to victories over the
war for conquest of the
During
the war a small wooden church was
erected in honour of each victory there, there were constructed eight
of them.
After the victory Ivan Grozny ordered to put stone churches instead of
wooden
ones. But invited by tsar masters Barma and Postnik grouped on one
basis eight
column-like
churches
placed around of the ninth highest one. Between four axial churches
there were
smaller in height ones located; both those and others were topped by
bulbous
heads. The central
temple
(ends by a tent with small head) was devoted to a holiday of Pokrova of
the
Mother of god, the day when
BARMA -
is the Russian architect of 16th century,
he
together with Postnik created Vasily Blazhenny temple.
POSTNIK
- actually it`s a name of two Russian
architects of the middle of 16th century:
1)
Postnik Yakovlev - is the
2)
the master who constructed (together with
Barma) Vasily Blazhenny temple (Pokrovsky cathedral, na Rvu). But
probably,
both Postniks
(and
also Barma
and
Postnik) - are the same person.
The
construction was taking place since 1555
till 1561. The bases, sole plate and details were made of white stones,
and
churches were built with bricks. That planing, natural bricky-white
scale
was
original painting of the cathedral. The originality of shape of the
cathedral -
absence of the accented main facade, impressive external impression
with rather
small internal space - accented its value as a monument. Up to the end
of XVII
century the cathedral was the highest building of
In
1588 the tenth church was built above a
tomb of known in
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