St Basils Cathedral Moscow Russia

Cathedral of Saint Basil the Blessed was built in 1555 1561 by Ivan IV (a.k.a Ivan the Terrible) to celebrate the capture of the Khanate of Kazan. The multi tented church stands at the very heart of Moscow,the Red Square. A legend says that Ivan had the architect,Postnik Yakovlev, blinded to prevent him from building a more magnificent building for anyone else. In fact, Postnik Yakovlev built a number of churches after Saint Basil s. Panda thinks that it may be huge lollypops and wants to taste it.