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The most prestigious theater award in Russia has moved to Kazan for the first time in its more than 30-year history. This time it was presented in the new building of the Galiasgar Kamal Theater.
Believers attend the Orthodox Christmas liturgy at the Kazan Cathedral in Saint Petersburg, Russia on January 7. — Reuters “They hate us because we are offering a different, alternative path ...
The Russian Orthodox Church head brought the icon to the Our Lady of Kazan Cathedral on Red Square, where it was kept until disappearing in the early 20th century.
Artyom Belsky stood alone in front of the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg for about 30 minutes holding an antiwar sign. Several passersby stopped to shake his hand or hug him, he said.
MirrorPix Images show the scale of the Coventry Cathedral construction site MirrorPix Pearl Hyde pictured with the Kazan Cathedral icon ...
The Donskoi Monastery became the Moscow Antireligious Museum and the Kazan Cathedral in Leningrad (today, St. Petersburg) became the Museum of the History of Religion.
Pompeo’s CIA saved hundreds of lives in 2017, when it alerted Russia to an imminent ISIS attack on Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg. Putin called Pompeo directly to thank him, saying, “Tank ...
The cathedral was named after the "miracle-making" icon of Our Lady of Kazan, probably the most venerated icon in all of Russia. The church housed this precious icon until the early 1930s.
But the snow-white walls of the Kremlin in Kazan, 800km east of Moscow, embrace a historic Orthodox cathedral, one of the biggest mosques in Russia, and this country's official idea of itself as a ...