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Kazan Cathedral (Cathedral of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God) is one of the largest temples in St. Petersburg. It was built on Nevsky Prospect in 1801-1811 by the architect Andrei Voronikhin to store an honored list of the miraculous icon of the Mother of God of Kazan. After the Patriotic W..r of 1812, it acquired the significance of a monument of Russian military glory. In 1813 the commander Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov was buried here and the keys to the taken cities and other military trophies were placed.
The main shrine of the temple is the revered image of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, a list of the miraculous icon found in Kazan at the end of the 16th century.
Other revered images are not currently in the cathedral:
• the icon of the Savior in the iconostasis;
• icons of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and the Czestochowa Mother of God, donated by Mikhail Kutuzov;
• Golgotha with a particle of the Living Coffin, designed by Nikolai Nikonov in 1891;
• The icon of the Resurrection of Christ, also with a particle of the Holy Sepulcher, sent in 1906 by Damian, Patriarch of Jerusalem.

Kazan Cathedral is a temple of Russian military glory. In the summer of 1812, before leaving for the army, the cathedral was visited by Mikhail Illutionovich Kutuzov, appointed to command the Russian army. He fell to the icon of the Kazan Mother of God. In 1813, the ashes of His Grace Prince Kutuzov, who died in the Prussian city of Bunzlau during the Overseas campaign of the Russian army, was buried in the Kazan Cathedral. The lattice enclosing the grave of Kutuzov and the marble slab on it were made according to a drawing by Andrey Voronikhin.
In 1813-1814, 107 captured French banners and standards of the defeated French regiments, 93 keys to fortresses and cities taken by the Russian army were exhibited for inspection in the cathedral.
In 1837, in honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the defeat of Napoleon on a semicircular square in front of the Kazan Cathedral, bronze monuments to the famous Russian military commanders Mikhail Kutuzov and Mikhail Barclay de Tolly were inaugurated. The author of the project was the Russian architect Vasily Stasov, and the figures of the generals were cast according to the models of the sculptor Boris Orlovsky. The monuments emphasized the memorial significance of the Kazan Cathedral as a kind of monument to the exploits accomplished by Russian soldiers in the name of the Fatherland.

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