Assumption Cathedral
Twelfth-century white-stone cathedral above the Klyazma, holding frescoes by Andrei Rublev.
The cathedral was raised between 1158 and 1160 by Prince Andrei Bogolyubsky on a bluff above the Klyazma, as the principal church of the Vladimir-Suzdal principality and, for a time, of the Russian church. Built of dressed white limestone with carved friezes and blind arcading, it was enlarged after a fire in 1189 by Vsevolod the Big Nest, who wrapped galleries around the original walls and added four further domes. It was the model examined by Aristotele Fioravanti before he built the Assumption Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin.
The interior keeps fragments of the twelfth-century decoration and, more importantly, the frescoes painted in 1408 by Andrei Rublev and Daniil Chorny, including a large Last Judgement on the western vaults. Icons from the cathedral's iconostasis are now divided between the State Russian Museum and the Tretyakov Gallery. The building was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1992 as part of the White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal, and is used jointly by the museum and the church.
Highlights
- Rublev and Daniil Chorny's Last Judgement frescoes of 1408
- White limestone walls with carved friezes and blind arcading
- Five domes added by Vsevolod the Big Nest after 1189
- UNESCO White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal
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