Renaisssance splendor comes to Moscow Russia picture - The first version of the Kremlin's Cathedral of the Assumption collapsed in an earthquake. In the mid 1400's, Czar Ivan the Great brought the Italian architect Aristotle Fioravantito to Moscow to design a second version of this light and spacious church in the spirit of the Renaissance.
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The first version of the Kremlin's Cathedral of the Assumption collapsed in an earthquake. In the mid 1400's, Czar Ivan the Great brought the Italian architect Aristotle Fioravantito to Moscow to design a second version of this light and spacious church in the spirit of the Renaissance.