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Holy Assumption Cathedral - the main temple of the North-East of Russia

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The white-stone Holy Assumption Cathedral with frescos of the famous icon painters of Russia Andrei Rublev and Daniil Chyorny is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. It rises above Vladimir and the Klyazma River. The first wooden church was laid here by Prince Vladimir in 990. A white-stone three-nave cathedral with one head was erected at this place in the middle of the 12th century at the period of Prince Andrey Bogolyubsky’s tenure. It was the highest cathedral of that time. After the terrible fire of 1185, in which many churches suffered, the cathedral was rebuilt into a five-domed church. The remains of Andrey Bogolyubsky and his younger brother Vsevolod the Big Nest are buried in the Holy Assumption Cathedral.

The Holy Assumption Cathedral was rebuilt after a fire, arranged by the Tatar-Mongols in 1238. Moscow became the capital of Russia in the first quarter of the fourteenth century, but the princes were elevated to the Great Moscow throne here, at the Holy Assumption Cathedral of Vladimir till 1428. In 1395 the main shrine was removed from the church: the icon of Our Lady of Vladimir was transported to the capital. In 1408 the icon painters Andrei Rublev and Daniil Chyorny painted the walls of the church. The fragments of the huge fresco "The Last Judgement" have reached us. In the XVII century the Holy Assumption Cathedral came to desolation. When visiting the cathedral in 1767, Catherine II ordered to release funds for recreation of the splendor of the temple, and at the end of the 18th century a new three-level gilded baroque iconostasis appeared. In the XIX century the walls of the temple were renewed again. Since that time most of the survived frescos have come down to us. From 1922 to 1944 the church was closed. The belfry became a parachute tower. Now the cathedral divides the museum and the church. A monument to the saints of the Vladimir land - Prince Vladimir and Saint Fedor was established in 2007 in the southern corner of the park surrounding the cathedral.

Holy Assumption Cathedral - the main temple of the North-East of Russia

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