The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow is the largest Russian Orthodox cathedral. It was built to commemorate the Russian victory over Napoleon in 1812, and the original church, designed by Konstantin Thon, took more than forty years to build and was consecrated in 1883. In 1931 the Soviet government blew it up to make room for a planned Palace of Soviets, which was never built, and later a large open-air swimming pool occupied the site. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the cathedral was rebuilt in the 1990s and consecrated in 2000. It was the scene of the Pussy Riot protest in 2012.
Before and after
- 19 July 1882Imo Incident
- 1 September 1882Discovery of Great Comet of 1882
- 5 September 1882Founding of Tottenham Hotspur F.C.
- 11 December 1882Birth of Max Born
- 1883Construction of Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
- 1883Publication of The Adventures of Pinocchio
- 3 January 1883Birth of Clement Attlee
- 6 January 1883Birth of Kahlil Gibran
- 13 February 1883Death of Richard Wagner
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