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is almost universally the case, one large clome over the centre of the
square, anclfour smaller ones in thefour angles.1 The great iconostasis
runs, as at Sta.

Sophia at Kief,
quite across the
church; but the
two lateral chapels
have smaller screens
inside which hicle
their altars, so that
the part between
the two becomes a
sort of private
chapel. This seems
to be the plan of
the greater number
of the Russian
churches of this
age.

But there is one
church in Moscow,
that of Vassili (St.

Basil) Blajenny, s
which is certainly

the most remarkable, as it is the most characteristic, of all the
churches of Russia. It was built by Ivan the Terrible (1534-1584),
ancl its architect was a foreigner, generally supposed to have come
from the TYest, inasmuch as this monarch sent an embassy to

Doorway of the Xroitzka Monastery, near Moscow.

Germany uncler one Schlit, to procure artists, of whom he is saicl to
have collected 150 for his service. If, however, German workmen
erected this building, it certainly was from Tartar designs. Kothing

1 The first bay, as skawn on plan (Woodcut No. 382), is the narthex; the iive
domes come beyond it.