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Trinity Cathedral is one of the most beautiful cathedrals in Russia. You can visit it when you travel in Russia. The cathedral represents an example of classic Russian architecture. This cathedral can receive about three thousand visitors at once. You can visit this cathedral on Russian river cruises.

This cathedral was damaged during the flood which took place in 1824. Only four years later the church was rebuilt by the order of Russian tsar Nicolas I. He ordered Vasily Stasov to rebuild the Trinity Cathedral. It took several years to rebuilt it.In 1835 the Cathedral was ready.

As the cathedral was a regimental church for the Izmailovsky regiment, there you can find flags, trophies, and keys from the fort that the regiment won during several campaigns in 1854-55 and in 1877-78. The beginning of the XXth century was marked by some events that lead to the closure of the Trinity Cathedral. Many valuable things preserved in the cathedral were stolen.

The Soviet period was very difficult time not only for the people, but also for many historical monuments of Russia. Many of the monasteries were destroyed at that time, but the Trinity cathedral survived as it became a warehouse during the Soviet time.

Only in the last decade of the 20th century the cathedral was given back tho the Russian Orthodox Church, The cathedral was restored and now it is opened to the visitors.

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