Kazan Cathedral, Moscow Kazan Cathedral after its reconstruction
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Казанский собор, also known as the "Cathedral of Our Lady of
Kazan", is a Russian Orthodox church located on the northeast
corner of Red Square in Moscow, Russia. The current building is
a reconstruction of the original church, which was destroyed at
the direction of then General Secretary of the Central Committee
of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, in
1936. The original cathedral  Upon recovering Moscow from the
armies of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1612 at the
close of the Time of Troubles, Prince Dmitry Pozharsky
attributed his success to the divine help of the icon Theotokos
of Kazan, to whom he had prayed on several occasions. From his
private funds, he financed construction of a wooden church to
the Virgin of Kazan on Red Square in Moscow, which was first
mentioned in historical records in 1625. After the diminutive
shrine was destroyed by a fir