Temples Of Moscow. Album in Russian and English

Temples Of Moscow. Album in Russian and English
M. Publisher Nikita Mikhalkov. 2000, 320 p. dust jacket Hard cover, 25.5 x 30,5 cm dust Cover suffered water damage.

The book has a circulation of 5000 copies, including 180 numbered and 20 registered copies in an exclusive binding of genuine leather with embossed 24 carat gold, made in the company "Paragon" on the sketch of Andrei Antonov.

"With great joy I present a unique book "Temples of Moscow", the fact of the appearance of which in the year of the two thousandth anniversary of Christianity is very significant. For the first time in recent years, the Moscow temple architecture appears before us in all its splendor. Russian Russian spirit, the feast of the Russian soul, the triumph of our common home-the Orthodox Church... " - from the Preface of the publisher, Nikita Mikhalkov. The album is built in accordance with the history of the city and consists of eight parts: the Kremlin, Monasteries, Kitai-Gorod, Belyi Gorod, Zemlyanoy Gorod, Zamoskvorechye, Moscow within the borders of 1917, the Outskirts. Thus, the album includes all Moscow parish Orthodox churches, monasteries and 17 most notable chapels, captured in 350 photographs with brief descriptions and names of their creators and benefactors.