Chapter 34: Red Square, St. Basil's Church (I)

Nia made caviar bread and beef stew, and in order to take into account my taste, she specially searched the recipe from the Internet to make Buryat buns.

I tried caviar bread and beef stew, the bread tasted quite to my taste, but the beef stew was a little unacceptable, and a smell that I didn't know whether to say was fishy or meat made me a little difficult to swallow, and Uncle Liu's family was very happy to eat.

Buryat buns taste very good, just by looking at the recipe and making it for the first time, you can almost reproduce this steppe food, and I think Nia's cooking talent must be full.

Ekaterina said that Russians don't eat on time in the summer, and they all eat according to the sky. I glanced at my watch, and by four o'clock in the afternoon, it was already getting dark outside the window.

Although it is a bit early to start getting dark at this point in May in China, it is still reasonable, but in Russia, where the sky is already bright at three o'clock in the morning, I can only silently sigh that the days in Russian summer are really desperately long.

After chatting with Uncle Liu's family in the living room for a night, I went upstairs to sleep, and early the next morning, I was still in a daze and was woken up by Catherine.

Under the urging and supervision of Catherine, she opened the door after washing up sleepily, and just happened to see Uncle Liu, who was pouting his ass and hadn't had time to get up, and was suddenly startled.

"Damn, Uncle Liu, why are you here."

Uncle Liu straightened up and pretended that I was definitely not leaning on the door to eavesdrop, and glanced at me lightly, "It's okay, just see if you are up." ”

I muttered to myself, hehe, you're here to see if your daughter has done anything.

Catherine seemed in a hurry, took two slices of bread from the basket on the table, smeared some caviar into my hand, and dragged me out.

As soon as I got into the car, before I had time to fasten my seat belt, Catherine stepped on the accelerator and went straight out, and my whole face was directly pasted on the bread because of inertia, and I raised my head and said helplessly while wiping the caviar on my face with my hand: "Do you need to be in such a hurry?" ”

Catherine looked ahead and said without replying: "We are going to worship in the Church of St. Basil's Ascension today, which is not close, and if you don't hurry up, you will be late!" ”

The condition of the car along the way is not bad, compared to the imperial capital, it can be described as empty. But Ekaterina didn't seem very satisfied, and I saw her honk three times at the three intersections, and I suddenly panicked when I saw the girl's solemn face.

I remember where I saw such a sentence describing Russian drivers, Russian drivers are more polite, unless there is an inauthentic behavior or emergency on the road, otherwise basically do not honk. A flick of the horn is basically about the same.

I guess Catherine was already scolding at this time

I rushed all the way to the church, and before I could even look at Red Square, I was pulled by Catherine to the front of St. Basil's church.

Ekaterina glanced at her watch, "Whew, it's finally time to catch up." ”

I looked at the tall and majestic church in front of me, decorated in red and white, like a castle in a fairy tale, and I couldn't help but sigh at the whimsy of the people who designed it.

Before I came, I checked the information that St. Basil's Church was built to commemorate an important historical event in the life of the Russian state in the middle of the 16th century - the conquest, victory and annexation of the Kazan Khan state. Later, it was named after a monk named Vasily who practiced penance here and eventually died in the church.

Legend has it that in this war, the Russian army was able to go smoothly thanks to the help of 8 saints. The church was built in honor of these eight saints, and the eight domes on the eight towers represent a saint each, while the tallest church crown in the middle symbolizes the supremacy of God.

It is said that after the completion of the construction of the church, in order to ensure that the same beautiful church would not appear again, Ivan the Great cruelly blinded all the architects, and Ivan the Great was also charged with the "Tsar of Terror". Of course, some people say that it was made up for the sake of Black Ivan the Great.

Russia believes in Orthodox Christianity, one of the three branches of Christianity based on orthodox theology and the Eastern ritual system, and is also an apostolic inheritance church that emphasizes its own orthodoxy.

After the division of the Roman Empire, Christianity split into two denominations, East and West. , the eastern faction was centered on Constantinople, and the western faction was centered on the city of Rome. In the 11th century, the Eastern and Western sects broke up, and the two brothers decided not to get along with each other for the rest of their lives. In order to advertise themselves as orthodox, the Easterners called themselves Greek Orthodoxy, also known as Orthodox. This is the origin of the Orthodox Church, which is not an independent religion in China, but belongs to Chinese Christianity.

The full name of the Vasily Church should be St. Basil's Ascension Cathedral, which is the Orthodox Church of Russia, and the Vasily Ascension Church is known as one of the ten most beautiful churches in the world.

From the exterior of the church, the whole church is cleverly combined by nine towers, and on a high base rises eight brightly colored onion-like towers, clustered around the central tower.

Ekaterina went to inquire and found that foreign tourists could only enter when it was open, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and the entrance fee was 350 roubles.

I glanced at my watch, and it was more than twenty minutes before ten o'clock. Wait a while and get in.

There were a lot of people outside the church, mostly Russians. My yellow face stood out in the crowd. I looked around and saw that there were a lot of beautiful Russian girls, but there were even more Russian aunts.

I suddenly remembered a very interesting saying about Russian girls, that is, Russian girls age very quickly, like flowers and jade within the age of twenty, and they are fine in their twenties before they are out of shape, and they are easily abused by yellow people when they are about thirty, and middle-aged women are basically very fat, just like nesting dolls.

Ekaterina suddenly interrupted my reverie, waved her hand in front of my eyes and asked, "Hey, what are you laughing at?" ”

I came back to my senses and said it was nothing. If I say this, I'm afraid that I'll be kicked out by Nia and Catherine when I go back.

Took a DSLR from my bag and took a few photos of St. Basil's Church of the Ascension, the weather was nice today and the light was good. The results were so good that I was going to pick out a few of them and put them in my travelogue from my trip to Moscow.

At ten o'clock, buy a ticket to enter the Vasily Church.