This study presents two sources on the Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God on the Moat in Moscow (1555-61), more commonly known as St. Basil’s Cathedral, that have so far been neglected in the scholarly debate on the monument in Russia and in the West. They consist of two manuscripts written between the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: Essay on Russian Antiquities (Opyt o russkich drevnostjach v Moskve) by Nikolay L’vov and Moscow and Its Surroundings… (Moskva s okrestnost’jami …) by Nikolay Karamzin. Interestingly, these two sources agree in attributing the church to an Italian architect. This article analyzes the two sources with particular attention to the historical and cultural context in which they were written.
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Titolo del capitolo
La cattedrale di San Basilio a Mosca: nuove considerazioni sulle fonti
Autori
Federica Rossi
Lingua
Italiano
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0893-2.12
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Anno di pubblicazione
2025
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© 2025 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
In dialogo con l'Occidente: Rinascimento e renovatio nella Russia del Cinquecento / В диалоге с Западом: возрождение и религиозное обновление в России XVI века
Curatori
Marcello Garzaniti, Ovanes Akopyan, Iris Karafillidis, Francesca Romoli
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
240
Anno di pubblicazione
2025
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© 2025 Author(s)
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Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0893-2
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0916-8
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0893-2
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-0894-9
Collana
Europe in between. Histories, cultures and languages from Central Europe to the Eurasian Steppes
ISSN della collana
2975-0318
e-ISSN della collana
2975-0326