Casgliadau Arlein

Albumen print (from collodion glass negative) mounted on card. View of River, with part of Kremlin to left, and St Basils Cathedral to right. Right hand print of a stereoscopic pair (80.96I/197)

This pair of stereoscopic views were taken from the Moskva River. It shows the wall of the Kremlin and the Beklemishevsky Tower, built in 1487 by Marco Ruffo, in the foreground. It was from the Kremlin fortress that the city of Moscow developed. To the right can be seen Red Square and the Cathedral of the Virgin of the Intercession ‘by the moat’ or, as it is more commonly known St Basil’s cathedral (Sobor Vasiliya Blazhennovo) which was commissioned by Ivan the Terrible in 1552 and built in 1555-60. (Source: 'Pastures Green and Dark Satanic Mills: The British Passion for Landscape', 2015)