A piece of the relics of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, brought today from Bari, Italy, have been delivered to Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral, where they were ceremoniously greeted by His ...

Vladimir Putin came to Moscow's downtown Cathedral of the Savior to venerate the relics of St Nicholas the Wonderworker that arrived in Moscow from Bari, Italy ...

The reconstruction of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior began in 1995. Within two years, the familiar 19th-century outlines had reappeared. ITAR-TASS ...

St. Nicholas' relics will stay in the Cathedral of the Savior through to July 14, after which they will be transported to St. Petersburg. / Photo: Artem Geodakian/TASS “Like any Russian, I am lazy.

That leader is Russia’s last tsar, Nicholas II (1894–1917), ... including Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and St. Petersburg’s Kazan Cathedral.

On the northern side of the Moskwa River, near the Kremlin, there stands the world’s tallest Orthodox Christian Church, the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. It looks centuries old, but it was ...

You can visit anytime from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. -- it's easily accessible from the Kropotkinskaya metro station. The Cathedral of Christ the Savior is an active church, ...

The tradition was broken only once, in 2003, when Putin was on an official visit to Tajikistan and attended the Easter service in the St. Nicholas Cathedral in the Tajik capital Dushanbe.

The Cult of Nicholas II by Matthew Dal Santo Ever since the USSR collapsed, tourist stalls in Moscow and St. Petersburg have heaved with Soviet knickknacks: Red Army caps and badges, prints of ...