Third Rome: Russia & Orthodoxy

Watching American television last night I once again was introduced to what I find to be a very strange phenomena.  The show was speaking about the Moscow Kremlin.  The building being called the Kremlin was in fact a very poor model of St Basil’s Cathedral in Red Square (in fact adding Red Stars and Catholic Style crosses to the cupolas in very poor taste; the juxtaposition of soviet and western Christian symbols as well as poor paint job was very difficult to swallow.).  An Architect character in the program called the building displayed ugly (unlikely for any architect of Read Full Article [...]