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Saint Basil's Cathedral: Then and Now

Cathedral on Red Square built in 1555–1561 for Ivan the Terrible to celebrate the capture of Kazan.

Historical view
Saint Basil's Cathedral, historical view
Fyodor Alekseyev, Red Square in Moscow (1801). Fyodor Alekseyev, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Today
Saint Basil's Cathedral, today
Tsy1980, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Key facts

Country todayRussia
StatusStanding
Date1561
Nearest city on the mapNovgorod (about 491 km)
Location55.752° N, 37.623° E
Map showing Saint Basil's Cathedral in 1500Saint Basil's Cathedral
Border map for 1500. See Europe in 1500.

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Who ruled this place

Derived from the border maps; each row runs until the next recorded border change.

PeriodState
500 BC–199Plain-Pottery culture
200–799Unclaimed / no data
800–899Slavonic tribes
900–999Khazars
1000–1099Kievan Rus'
1100–1199Kievan Rus'
1200–1299Other Rus Principalities
1300–1399Grand Duchy of Moscow
1400–1491Blue Horde
1492–1599Grand Duchy of Moscow
1600–1782Tsardom of Muscovy
1783–1919Russian Empire
1920–1929USSR
1930–1937White Russia
1938–1993USSR
1994–todayRussia

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