Just amazing architectural complex is located in the small town Vyshny Volochyok on the way from Moscow to Saint-Petersburg.
The Kazan cathedral reminds a huge ancient castle.
It was built in 1880 on the territory of the convent to conserve the miracle-working icon of the Mother of Kazan. The rich merchants of Moscow and Saint-Petersburg donated for the construction. The author of the project was the Moscow architect Alexander Kaminsky.
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Being finished the cathedral got much more impressive than expected.
It’s interesting that Kaminsky decided to make a similar project in Moscow and in 1881 a chapel was started in Nikolskaya street. You can see it in the old photo.
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Unfortunately we can’t see it now: it was demolished during Moscow reconstruction in 1934. However the Kazan cathedral in Vyshny Volochyok remained even during anti-religious soviet time. And we can admire it!
