Kazan Cathedral (St. Petersburg)
This is St. Petersburg’s imposing
Kazan Cathedral, which features an impressive and absolutely http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Kazanskij_sobor.jpg
massive stone colonnade, encircling a small garden and central
fountain. In 1876, this was the location of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazan_demonstration first ever
political demonstration in Russia.
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This is actually one of several cathedrals dedicated to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Kazan Our Lady of
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rel=”footnote 1, and this one was completed in 1811, and
was modelled after St.
Peter’s Basilica in Rome.
Here’s the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazan_Cathedral obligatory
Wikipedia page, which unfortunately sounds like it’s been
automatically translated from Russian.
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The other http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazan_Cathedral,_Moscow most
notable one is in
Moscow’s Red Square. #fnref:1″
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