Exhibition "Interior of the Dormition Cathedral"

About exhibition

The Dormition Cathedral is a fascinating monument of Old Russian history and art and is included on the UNESCO World Heritage List. For a long time the cathedral was the main church of Ancient Rus'. Moscow and Vladimir princes were crowned there as Grand Princes, among them Alexander Nevsky, Dmitry Donskoy, and Ivan Kalita. Beneath the cathedral's vaults rested the foremost Russian shrine — the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God. In the 15th century the church served as a model for the Italian architect Aristotle Fioravanti in the construction of the Dormition Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin. The cathedral preserves the oldest Russian necropolis — over 40 burials of the Vladimir grand-princely dynasty and Vladimir bishops. Visitors will see the burials of Princes Andrey Bogolyubsky, Vsevolod the Big Nest, his son George Vsevolodovich, and a symbolic tomb housing a relic of Alexander Nevsky.