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Night view of a church around a bend in the Moskva River, shot from the window of my room at the Rossiya Hotel. The following from Moscow Taxi-Com:

The Cathedral of Christ the Savior - magnificent replica of the 19th century church designed by the architect Konstantin Ton to commemorate Russia's victory over the French in the Napoleonic Wars, which was demolished on Stalin's orders in the 1930s but built anew in the 1990s to mark Moscow's 850th birthday. Continue Reading