Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0279Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of the Kremlin overlooking a river. Above the image "T394 (Star)" is printed, below the image "19425 T The Kremlin in Winter, Seen from the Moskva River, Moscow, Russia." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company COPYRIGHTED Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
19425
THE KREMLIN FROM THE MOSKVA RIVER, RUSSIA
We are looking from the Moskva River to the central part of the Kremlin, crowded with churches and palaces which are among the most importatn in Russia. The former palace of the czars, now a museum, part of which we see in the background, is a modern European building. But the rest of the structures are old and entirely Russian in conception, showing the influence of Greek and Byzantine architecture in their general lines while that of the Tartar invaders from central Asia appears in the bulbous domes surmounting their many pinnacls. The four square towers nearest at hand are some of the nineteen belonging to the wall around the Kremlin. The great tower further back is the campanile of Ivan Veliky, 325 ft. high, which was built by the Czar Boris Godunov in 1600. In it and in the facade of the monastery beside it we can see some of the many bells belonigng to the campanile, the largest of which weights over 64 tons. Before the revolution of 1917 the treasury of the partriarchs in this building contained ecclesiastical treasures of enormous value, which were confiscated by the government of the Soviets. The Catehdral of the Archangel Michael, which, with its numerous turrents, we see at the left of the campanile, was erected in 1508 on the site of an earlier building. It shelters the tombs of forty-seven czars. The Russian peasant has always been most devout in oberving the forms and traditons of the Greek Catholic Church, which was formerly the State Church, and even the Sovier regime has had to regard this fact in adjusting its political ideas to the people who are to be governed.
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