c. 1900Moscow
Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
Period photograph of the cathedral standing. Photographer of this scan is not fixed on the file.
Street photograph
c. 1900·Moscow
Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
Period photograph of the cathedral standing. Photographer of this scan is not fixed on the file.
Street photograph · Reconstructed
What this plate shows
The original cathedral photographed in snow: the great dome, the bronze domelets, a crowd, a monumental masonry church on the Moskva. A camera in Moscow around 1900. The building in this exposure would be dynamited in 1931. Do not read the 1990s reconstruction back onto this plate.
- Image type
- Street photograph
- Structure
- Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (original)
- Region
- Russia
- Documented completion
- 1883 (original).
- Architect
- Konstantin Thon
- Present status
- Reconstructed — The cathedral photographed here was demolished on 5 December 1931. A reconstruction occupies the site from the 1990s. This plate is the original standing. Status is reconstructed — a later documented sequence, not visible in the exposure.
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons scan of an early-twentieth-century photograph of the original Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Moscow.
- License
- Public domain (pre-revolutionary Russian photograph).