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Article: GEOQUEST.(Pokhrovsky Cathedral)
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- March 23, 2001
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Although most Russians know this Moscow building as Pokhrovsky Cathedral, most westerners call it by another name. Czar Ivan IV, known as "Ivan the Terrible," commissioned two Russian architects to build the cathedral in 1552. Nine domes painted in vivid colors characterize the building's exterior. According to legend, after the architects ...