
St Basil’s Cathedral tickets and tours

Enjoy a private guided 4-hour tour of Moscow including fast-track entrance tickets to the KremlinStart your 4-hour tour of Moscow meeting yo...
4 hours

Experience a program of discoveries and anecdotes on a 4-hour mini-bus city tour in Moscow, where you will discover the must-see attractions...
4 hours

Discover the most beautiful buildings of Moscow, from the Novodevichy Convent to the Kremlin, in a comfortable ship along the Moskva River. ...
2 hours 30 minutes

Saint Basil’s Cathedral has been an integral part of Russian history, this famous church was on the Red Square long before the first Romanov...
2 hours

Start your journey through Moscow at Bolotnaya Square, where the adventure onboard the green and red lines start. The red line will take you...
48 hours

Explore the most iconic locations of Moscow on a 2-hour tour in Red Square. Enter Saint Basil's Cathedral, a UNESCO world heritage site and ...
2 hours

Enjoy a luxurious Radisson yacht cruise for 2.5 hours through the center of Moscow. With multiple starting times from 1.00pm to 9.00pm you c...
2 hours 30 minutes

Enjoy skip-the-line access to Moscow's key attractions and explore the capital city on a 4-hour walking tour with a professional guide.Meet ...
4 hours

With a guide discover the history of the Red Square and the buildings laying on it: from Lenin's Mausoleum to the GUM department store, pass...
2 hours
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The inside story
St Basil’s Cathedral is an Orthodox church in the Red Square in Moscow. Viewed as a symbol of the city the church carries many names including Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed, Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed or Pokrovsky Cathedral. From the outside this iconic building features colorful onion shaped domes seated in front of a garden with a bronze statue honoring Dmitry Pozharsky and Kuzma Minin. It’s interiors hold nine chapels surrounding a high belfry with walls and vaults covered in frescoes and oil paintings of saints.
The construction of the cathedral was ordered by Tsar Ivan the Terrible between 1555 and 1561 to celebrate his many victories during the Russo-Kazan war and was once the tallest building in Moscow. Built in the busy marketplace outside of the Kremlin walls, this church once began as a single wooden memorial created next to the Trinity Church, concluding in a cluster of seven wooden churches. Its final red bricked structure was created on the same site of the Trinity Church to commemorate the conquest of Kazan with a unique architectural style which is disputably accredited to Barma and Postnik.