Situated on the city’s main thoroughfare, Nevsky Prospect, this iconic building and symbol of Russia’s northern capital was designed by a former serf. Photographs by William Brumfield Like the ...

Lori / Legion-Media The Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan is one of the best-known symbols of St. Petersburg. Inspired by St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, it was built in 1811. RBTH remembers some ...

The Kazan Icon of the Mother of God is one of the most revered Orthodox shrines in Russia, a symbol of spiritual protection and intercession. In 2025, the holiday in honor of this image is celebrated ...

The Kazan Icon of the Mother of God is one of the most revered shrines of the Russian Orthodox Church, which has a rich history and numerous testimonies of the miraculous help of believers. Its ...

Moscow (AsiaNews) - The Russian Orthodox patriarch Kirill (Gundjaev) yesterday consecrated the cathedral dedicated to the icon of the Mother of God in Kazan, capital of the republic of Tatarstan, the ...

A fortress razed and then rebuilt by a triumphant Ivan the Terrible would seem to be an unlikely symbol of tolerance and inclusivity. But the snow-white walls of the Kremlin in Kazan, 800km east of ...