
Although it is known in the whole world like the Cathedral of San Basilio, its original name is a Cathedral POKROVSKIY, erected at the request of Czar Iván "The Terrible one", to commemorate the victory of the Russian people on the Tartar ones, and the Kazán conquest, it was finished in 1561. Its extructura consists of 9 churches covered by some other domes with its characteristic form acebollada. On her a terrible legend is narrated, in effect, one is said that when the Czar saw her finished, he remained so astonished, that ordered to make its builders blind so that they could not already repeat this marvel.
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