Participants in a religious procession celebrating the feast day of Our Lady of Kazan, in Chelyabinsk.04.11.2016#2967836
Participants in a religious procession celebrating the feast day of Our Lady of Kazan, in Chelyabinsk.04.11.2016#2967837
Participants in a religious procession celebrating the feast day of Our Lady of Kazan, in Chelyabinsk.04.11.2016#2967866
Participants in a religious procession celebrating the feast day of Our Lady of Kazan, in Chelyabinsk.04.11.2016#2967840
Participants in a religious procession celebrating the feast day of Our Lady of Kazan, in Chelyabinsk.04.11.2016#2967841
Participants in a religious procession celebrating the feast day of Our Lady of Kazan, in Chelyabinsk.04.11.2016#2967844
Participants in a religious procession celebrating the feast day of Our Lady of Kazan, in Chelyabinsk.04.11.2016#2967846
Participants in a religious procession celebrating the feast day of Our Lady of Kazan, in Chelyabinsk.04.11.2016#2967848
Participants in a religious procession celebrating the feast day of Our Lady of Kazan, in Chelyabinsk.04.11.2016#2967851
Participants in a religious procession celebrating the feast day of Our Lady of Kazan, in Chelyabinsk.04.11.2016#2967853
Participants in a religious procession celebrating the feast day of Our Lady of Kazan, in Chelyabinsk.04.11.2016#2967855
Participants in a religious procession celebrating the feast day of Our Lady of Kazan, in Chelyabinsk.04.11.2016#2967857
Participants in a religious procession celebrating the feast day of Our Lady of Kazan, in Chelyabinsk.04.11.2016#2967859
Participants in a religious procession celebrating the feast day of Our Lady of Kazan, in Chelyabinsk.04.11.2016#2967863
Clergymen and believers take part in a religious procession celebrating the feast day of Our Lady of Kazan outside the Our Lady of Kazan Cathedral in Krasnodar.04.11.2016#2968303
Believers take part in a religious procession celebrating the feast day of Our Lady of Kazan outside the Our Lady of Kazan Cathedral in Krasnodar.04.11.2016#2968302
Participants in a cross procession carrying a copy of the Our Lady of Kazan icon from the Toplovsky Monastery to the Kazan Cathedral in Feodosia.03.11.2016#2967769
An athlete practicing before the start of the competitions during the FINA High Diving World Cup in Kazan.08.08.2014#2473832
An athlete practicing before the start of the competitions during the FINA High Diving World Cup in Kazan.08.08.2014#2473833
An athlete practicing before the start of the competitions during the FINA High Diving World Cup in Kazan.08.08.2014#2473830
An athlete practicing before the start of the competitions during the FINA High Diving World Cup in Kazan.07.08.2014#2473669
An athlete practicing before the start of the competitions during the FINA High Diving World Cup in Kazan.07.08.2014#2473671
Torchbearers Nikolai Khraptsov and Maria Alabicheva during the Sochi 2014 Olympic torch relay in Tambov.12.01.2014#2347509
Former paratroopers attending Airborne Troops Day celebrations on St. Petersburg's Nevsky Prospekt.02.08.2010#733689
The famous Book House re-opens after thorough repairs in Zinger's House, an architectural monument in Nevsky Avenue, St. Petersburg. The window opens on Kazan Cathedral.24.11.2006#138665
Red Square, Moscow. Left is the Kazan Cathedral (in honor of the Kazan icon of the Mother of God). Built in 1636. Demolished in 1936 and reconstructed in 1993. Right is part of the building of the State Department Store (GUM).01.09.1997#704600
The Kazan Cathedral is one of the largest Orthodox cathedrals in St. Petersburg, the city's cathedral church. Architect Andrei Voronikhin. A monument to Mikhail Kutuzov by sculptor Boris Orlovsky, left.09.06.1996#131807
The Kazan Federal Cathedral (The Cathedral of Kazan Mother of God) built in 1801-1811 by architect Andrei Voronikhin. The cathedral was inactive between 1932 and 1991 and was home to the Religion and Atheism History Museum of the USSR Academy of Sciences.15.07.1991#6609797
Patriarch Alexis II of Moscow and All Russia, right, during the ceremony of transferring the holy relics of St. Seraphim of Sarov to the Russian Orthodox Church, Kazan Cathedral in Leningrad which was inactive from 1932 to 1991 as it hosted the Museum of the the History of Religion and Atheism of the USSR Academy of Sciences.11.01.1991#8183306
Believers attend the ceremony of transferring the holy relics of St. Seraphim of Sarov to the Russian Orthodox Church, Kazan Cathedral in Leningrad which was inactive from 1932 to 1991 as it hosted the Museum of the the History of Religion and Atheism of the USSR Academy of Sciences.11.01.1991#8183304
Patriarch Alexis II of Moscow and All Russia, center, during the ceremony of transferring the holy relics of St. Seraphim of Sarov to the Russian Orthodox Church, Kazan Cathedral in Leningrad which was inactive from 1932 to 1991 as it hosted the Museum of the the History of Religion and Atheism of the USSR Academy of Sciences.11.01.1991#8183303
A ceremony to transfer the shrine containing the relics of St. Seraphim of Sarov from the vaults of the Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg) to the Russian Orthodox Church. Museum Director Stanislav Kuchinsky, fourth left, and Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II, center, during the ceremony to transfer the relics to the Seraphim-Diveyevo Convent.11.01.1991#6687439
Monument to the great Russian military leader Mikhail Kutuzov in front of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan in St.Petersburg13.09.1989#13880
Museum of Religion and Atheism of the USSR Academy of Sciences at the Kazan Cathedral in Leningrad. Visitors in the Oriental Religions department.10.05.1971#8250927
Representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church visit Vatican as part of closer relations between the two religious communities. Protopriest Vladimir Rozhkov and Pyotr Raina, right to left, present the icon of the Kazan Godmother to Pope Paul VI during a meeting in Rome (back: Pierre Duprey, Deputy Head of the Secretariat on Christian Unity).07.02.1968#8344610
The Cathedral of the Icon of Our Lady of Kazan in Luga city in the Leningrad Region.26.07.1966#6126442
City residents having a rest in the park near the Kazan Cathedral, Leningrad (renamed St. Petersburg).15.09.1965#40874