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Cultural heritage monuments of federal significance in Moscow

  • Spasskaya TowerGrand Prince Ivan III the Great commissioned a new tower in 1491. Italian architect Pietro Antonio Solari arrived from Milan to begin work.
  • Tretyakov GalleryIn 1856, a Muscovite merchant named Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov purchased two paintings by Russian artists. The first was Temptation by Nikolay Shilder and…
  • Saint Basil's CathedralIn the autumn of 1554, Tsar Ivan IV issued a command to build a wooden Church of Intercession on the moat. This structure stood next to the existing Trinity…