Saint Basil's Cathedral
The Intercession Cathedral, better known as the Cathedral of St. Basil the Blessed or St. Basil's Cathedral was commissioned by Ivan the Terrible and built between 1534 and 1561 in Moscow to commemorate the capture of Kazan.
Saint Basil's is located at one end of Red Square, just across from the Spassky tower of the Kremlin. Not particularly large, it consists of nine chapels built on a single foundation. It was named after Basil Fool for Christ, a Russian Orthodox saint.
Legend says Ivan had the architect, Postnik Yakovlev blinded to prevent him from building a more magnificent building for anyone else.
