Храм Христа Спасителя в Москве
презентация к уроку по английскому языку

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1 The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour is the largest church in Russia. It can accommodate 15000 believers .

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2 It was built to commemorate the victory over Napoleon.

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3 First it was commissioned by Alexander I for the Sparrow Hills, where the Moscow University stands now. After Alexander death, Tsar Nikolay I had it relocated on Volkhonka street, not far from Kremlin.

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4 The construction went for 44 years. The church was built on people’s donations.

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5 Inside it was painted by famous Russian artists such as K.P. Bryullov , V.V. Vereshchagin, I.N. Kramskoi , V.I. Surikov and others.

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6 On the 5 ’ th of December 1931, at the order of Stalin, it was blown up. It was planned to build the Palace of Soviets on this place and a statue of Lenin.

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7 The palace was never built, because of World War II. In 1958 an open swimming pool “Moskva” was opened there.

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8 On the initiative of Moscow’s mayor Luzhkov and the Moscow Government the construction of the Cathedral started at the beginning of 1995. Thus the cathedral was built a new.

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This Cathedral has become the symbol of revival of Christian Russia for millions of Russians. 9

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In the distance on the opposite side of the street, named Volkhonka is the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum was built in Greek classical style in 1898-1912 by architect R. Klein. 10

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Next to it is The Museum of Private collections. 11

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Between the Pushkin and Private Collections museums, at Maliy Znamensky lane The Rerikhs Museum and the International Rerikh’s Centre. 12

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13 Thank you for attention !