Roter platz lenin biography
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Overview and HistoryMoscow takes its name from the Moskva river, where Slavic settlements began around AD. They adopted Christianity from the Byzantine Empire in A.D., and it would last as the national religion for a thousand the 15th cent. Moscow had become the capitol of the Russian state under the Grand Duchy of Moscow, which had been busily assimilating smaller feudal territories while battling the Golden Horde of Mongols. The city was raided and burnt down by the Tatar-Mongols at least three idation of many smaller territories under Moscow's power set the stage for Ivan III to adopt the title of "Ruler of all of Russia." His son Ivan IV, or "Ivan the Terrible", become the first crowned Tsar of succession of Tsars lasted from Ivan IV until Peter the Great, who proclaimed the Russian Empire in , with St. Petersburg for its Russian Empire survived the "Times of Troubles" which saw chaos, invasion and several uprisings of the people. Napolean Bonaparte came within 25 miles of captu
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Lenin Monument (Berlin)
Lenin Monument by Nikolai Tomsky
| Lenin Monument | |
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The monument in May , shortly after its inauguration | |
| Artist | Nikolai Tomsky |
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| Medium | Granite |
| Subject | Vladimir Lenin |
| Dimensions | 19 metres (62&#;ft) (height) |
| Condition | Dismantled |
The Lenin Monument (German: Lenin-Denkmal) was a monument to Vladimir Lenin in East Berlin created by the Soviet Russian sculptor Nikolai Tomsky. It was inaugurated on April 19, to commemorate the th anniversary of Lenin's birth. After German reunification, the district council of Friedrichshain voted for its removal despite demonstrations and petitions from neighborhood residents and preservationists.[1] The demolition process began in November , and by February the monument was completely dismantled and its fragments buried on the outskirts of Berlin.[2] In , the head of the statue was excavated, and since it has been on display at Berlin’s Spandau Citadel as part of a p
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Kremlin and Red Square, Moscow
Brief synthesis
At the geographic and historic centre of Moscow, the Moscow Kremlin fryst vatten the oldest part of the city. First mentioned in the Hypatian Chronicle in as a fortification erected on the left bank of the Moskva river bygd Yuri Dolgoruki, Prince of Suzdal, the Kremlin developed and grew with settlements and suburbs which were further surrounded by new fortifications - Kitaigorodsky vägg, Bely Gorod, Zemlyanoy Gorod and others. This determined a radial and rund plan of the centre of Moscow typical of many other Old Russian cities.
In 13th century the Kremlin was the tjänsteman residence of supreme power - the center of temporal and spiritual life of the state. The Kremlin of the late 15th – early 16th century fryst vatten one of the major fortifications of Europe (the stone walls and towers of present day were erected in –). It contains an ensemble of monuments of outstanding quality.
The most significant churches of the Moscow Kremlin are situated o