Tuesday, 31 July 2012

Menshikov Tower (Church of Archangel Gabriel)



Menshikov Tower, also known as the Church of Archangel Gabriel, is a Baroque Russian Orthdox Church. It was built in 1707 to order of Alexander Menshikov  by Ivan Zarudny assisted by Domenico Trezzini, a team of Italian-Swiss craftsmen from Ticino and Freyburg cantons and Russian stonemasons from Kostroma and Yaroslavl. It was substantially altered in 1770

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