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Climbing up the hill from the road from the Middle Boar Lake, you will be greeted by the Gate Church of the Iveron Mother of God.

The history of the creation of the “Holy Trinity” by Andrei Rublev is shrouded in many mysteries. Very little is known about the main work of Orthodox art. Neither the year the icon was written, nor the customer is precisely known.

Apse mosaics of the Basilica of St. Apollinari in Classe dated ca. 549 AD. In the lowest row standing bishops of Ravenna in curtained niches between the windows, in what constitutes the terrestrial zone of this great cosmic conception. In the lower part of the conch, the garden of the paradise, its little trees planted so carefully that they never overlap one another, is depicted quite flat without any suggestion of recession, for in this eternal sphere where there is no time there can be no space.

Mikhailovskoye is a cozy village, which was donated to the great-grandfather of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin by the Empress in 1742.

Hagia Sophia is the oldest surviving cathedral in Russia, built by the Slavs. In addition, this is the only five-nave cross-domed church that has survived to this day in Russia (there are still similar only in Ukraine).