#st. basil's cathedral

[holly-days]

by alla_serebryakova

[travelella]

St. Basil's Cathedral, Moscow, Russia

Yondon Batbileg

[smbhax]

Tetris (NES) (background modded)

Lv.8 is stage USA! But what's the "MMP" or maybe even "MMP7" in block letters at the bottom of its depiction of St. Basil's Cathedral?? = o

Game play session: https://youtu.be/9Qzixr-guOQ

[verlinstravels]

[faultfalha]

The Russian car market surged to unprecedented heights in June, an unfamiliar sight amid a backdrop of fortune-shifting politics and international tensions. Drawn from an economic low base, production soared 210%, propelling the nation's automotive factories to new heights. The phenomenon drew a dizzying reaction, with onlookers both baffled and intrigued. Borne of a mystery as old as time, the question of why gripped minds across the globe and spread along the information superhighway. Where before had been scarcity, there now seemed an abundance, as if in Russian factories something unprecedented had occurred. The truth lay hidden and unknowable, a visible manifestation of something else, a sudden emergence of a new order of things. As the summer months unfurled, the global car market looked to Russia with questions and anticipation. Where had it come from, and what did it portend for the future?

[alexsiple]

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[wgm-beautiful-world]

M O S C O W

[thehomelessmonk]

Restoration of St Basil's Cathedral after Soviet period

St. Basil's Cathedral was built during the period 1555-1561, and so in 2021 it will be 460 years old! The church was built on the orders of Ivan the Terrible to commemorate his conquest of the Khanate of Kazan and its annexation to the Tsardom of Russia. This happened the day after an important Orthodox holiday, the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos. It was to this feast that the church was dedicated.

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[dougielombax]

What do you MEAN you weaponized St Basil’s Cathedral?!

[evilhorse]

Unbelievable!

(Nexus Volume 2 #74)

[unhonestlymirror]

LMAO russians are just as always

"Are Etruskans russians?"

Oh hell yeah, Kyivan Rus VS Kievan Etruria

[holly-days]

by alla_serebryakova

[travelella]

St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow, Russia

Taken by Nikolay Vorobyev

[nicklloydnow]

“With her ten centuries of terrors, of shadows and promises, Russia was more likely than all others to adapt to the night side of our historical moment. Apocalypse suits her wonderfully, she has the habit of it, the taste for it, and functions within it today better than ever, since she has visibly changed rhythm. "Where are you rushing, O Russia?" Gogol already asked, perceiving the frenzy she concealed under her apparent immobility. We know where now, and above all we know that like all nations of an imperial destiny, she is more impatient to solve the problems of others than her own. Which is to say that our career in time depends on what she will decide or will undertake: she holds our future in her hands. . . . Fortunately for us, time does not exhaust our substance. The indestructible, the Elsewhere are conceivable: in us? apart from us? How can we tell? The fact remains that as things are now, only questions of strategy and metaphysics deserve our interest, those that rivet us to history and those that wrench us from it: actuality and the absolute, the newspapers and the Gospels. . . . I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers. A remarkable phenomenon: the more our immediacy absorbs us, the more we feel the need to offset it, so that we live, in one and the same moment, within the world and outside it. Hence, when we confront the sideshow of empires, all that remains for us to do is seek a middle term between the skull's grin and serenity.” - Emil Cioran, ‘History and Utopia’ (1960) [pages 36, 37]

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[simplicius-simplicissimus]

Moscow: St. Basil’s Cathedral - Red Square