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MOSCOW - SCENES

 
  bell tower  
 

The tent shaped tower appears here framed in an archway.The first known stone church of the Russian wooden, tent-type was the church of the Ascension, Voznesenski, in the village of Kolomenskoye, built in the Russian kokoshnik, or tent style in 1532 by Vasili III to commemorate the birth of his son, Ivan IV.

 
   

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