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Interior of the Resurrection cathedral - waiting for restauration
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Pavel Viaznikov
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As I have already written, this cathedral was supposed to represent Jerusalem; for making pilgrimages to Russian people not so long and costly, Patriarch Nikon ordered to search for holy places closer to Moscow. When they discovered that a place just about 50-60 km from Moscow topographically was almost a calc of the original Jerusalem, they took it for a Sign and built a big Resurrection monastery. As other monasteries, it also served as a fortress protecting Moscow, as a big feudal producer of various goods, and as a prison; when Nikon fall into disgrace and was dismissed from the Patriarch's throne, he found himself in a cell here. Though looking like a tiny 5-store palace, it was still a penance cell, and Nikon was more a prisoner then a monk here.
It looks like this from the outside.
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18 February 2007 |
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20 February 2007
04:47
Pavel Viaznikov
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| "It" is Nikon's cell, not the cathedral, of which there are also some photos :) |
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[ February 18, 2007 ]
