Hagia Sophia

Istanbul

St. Sophia

Kiev

Boris and Gleb

first russian saints

Vladimir's sons that got killed by thier brother

Andrey Rublev's Trinity

Three angels

Moscow

The Crown/ hat of Monomakh

Was used in the coronations of Russian tsars

First belonged to Vladimir Monomakh

Byzantium state emblem

double headed eagle

orb and scepter represent soverign power an authority

By Pavel Korin (1942)

Painting of Alexander Nevsky

Date is significant because it was the tme Russia was fighting Germany and Alexander had military victories over Germany and Sweden 

Fresco from Archangel Cathedral in Moscow

of Alexander Nevsky

canonized in the 16th century

Monument of Yuri Dolgorukii

believed to have laid the foundation for Moscow in 1156

By V. Vasnetsov (1914)

the Kulikovo Field battle--defeated the Mongols in battle in 1380

Dimitrii Donskoj led them, a Moscow prince

By V. Vasnetsov (1897)

Ivan the Terrible

by I. Repin (1885)

Ivan the Terrible killing his son Ivan

his son gets into an argument about Ivan iv beating his wife, and Ivan iv beats him and kills him

St. Basil's Cathedral

to comemorate the conquest of Kazan by Ivan iv from the Mongols

"Blessed is the Army of the Heavenly Tsar"

to comemorate the conquest of Kazan

by Vasilii Surikov

in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Religious Schism