Museum Of Military History Of Moscow

This is an operating ecclesiastical estate of Russian Orthodox Church. The name Krutitsy (pl.), i.e. steep river banks, meant the hills immediately east from Yauza River. Krutitsy Metochion, established in late 13th century. Parts of it: Dormition Cathedral, actually containing two churches. The lower winter church of St. Peter and Paul was completed in 1667-1689. The upper, unheated summer church of Dormition of our Lady, was completed in 1700. The five-domed cathedral is 29 meters from ground level to the base of a cross. It used to be called Little Dormition Cathedral, as if second only to the Dormition Cathedral in Kremlin; Resurrection Church, completed in 1650s on early 16th century foundations; Metropolitan's Chamber, 1655-1670; Metropolitan's Gallery, connecting the Chambers to Cathedral, with gates and the Teremok tower above them, 1693-1694, by architects Osip Startsev and Illarion Kovalyov, with artwork tiles by Stepan Ivanov; Riverside Dormitory, 1719 and a row of small 19th-century wooden houses. Photography only with prior consent of the clergy.

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