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Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin's Nativity in the Saveno-Storozhevsky Monastery in Zvenigorod.
Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin's Nativity in the Saveno-Storozhevsky Monastery in Zvenigorod.
TitleCathedral of the Blessed Virgin's Nativity in the Saveno-Storozhevsky Monastery in Zvenigorod.
NotesThe Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin's Nativity was built iIn 1407 by Prince Yuriy Dmitriyevich, the youngest son of Dimitry Donskoy. The bells of the cathedral served to warn Moscow of the approach of invaders. Presumably this was the reason that the nearby town was named Zvenigorod - the town of bell ringing.
SubjectsCathedrals
Orthodox churches
Monasteries
Saveno-Storozhevskii monastyr
Sobor Rozhdestva Presviatoi Bogoriditsy (Zvenigorod, Russia)
PhotographerVogel, Stuart
RegionTsentralnyy Ekonomicheskiy Rayon
Oblast/ProvinceMoskovskaya Oblast
City/TownZvenigorod
Object Date15th century
ContributorsVogel, Stuart
ImageTypephotograph
Image Date2002
Digital CollectionCentral Eurasian Information Resource
Image No.6848
Contact informationThe University of Washington Libraries does not provide reproductions of this image. The original negative, print, or slide reproduced here remains in the possession of the copyright holder. For further information contact the UW Libraries' Slavic and East European Section, slavinfo@u.washington.edu.
RightsVogel, Stuart
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