In 1635-1636, a domestic church dedicated to the Saviour Not Made by Hands was built on the men's side of the palace

In 1635-1636, a domestic church dedicated to the Saviour Not Made by Hands was built on the men's side of the palace. It later came to be called the Upper Saviour Cathedral (Verkhospassky Sobor). In 1682 three palace churches, those of the Resurrection "Slovushchy", of the Saviour Not Made by Hands, and the side chapel of the Crucifixion, were brought together under a single roof, crowned with eleven gilded cupolas, whose drums were richly adorned with tiles and with images of saints on round copper sheets (the sheets have not survived). The building work was directed by the architect Osip Startsev

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

In 1635-1636, a domestic church dedicated to the Saviour Not Made by Hands was built on the men's side of the palace

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s