The Cathedral of St. Vasily the Blessed reveals the wondeful appearance as if it came out from the fairyland, in a corner at Red Square surrounded by the Kremlin, Lenin Mausoleum, National Museum, "GUMU" department store. It is a cathedral representing Russian orthodox churches and the unque dignified appearance is surely worthy to be called a world heritage.
Sergiyevo-Posadsky is one of satellite cities in Moscow suburbs which is a beautiful tourist resort called "golden ring". I arrived there after swaying in an intercity train from Moscow for 1.5 hours. I was afraid that they didn't understand English even at stations of the central part in Moscow, but I somehow could arrive there safely buying a ticket by gesture.
The Ensemble of the Novodevichy Covent is a world heritage site located on a hilltop where is 5 stations by subway away from the central part of Moscow. The whole abbey is surrounded with a rampart, and it was used as a fortress when Moscow is invaded.
Blagoveshchenskiy sobor was built on the order of Ivan great emperor. The inside is filled with icons of the Russian orthodox. The cathedrals is inside Kremlin in Moscow. Kremlin means a fort in Russian. Kremlin is the center of the politics in Russia, and the presidential palace is there.
Christ the Savior Cathedral in the central part of Moscow is the spiritual basis for the citizen. Originally, it was built in memory of the victory to Napoleon's Russian invasion. It was once destroyed by Stalin, but after that, it was reconstructed in the 1990s.
