Virtual Refectory: Faulty Towers

The Terrible reigns...

It's been a rather busy and long week: A funeral, a filming shoot, an illness, a sofa delivery, an optician’s appointment, and a couple more things thrown in for good measure, and will culminate this weekend at HistFest, where I will be appearing on the Sunday, rounding out the festival, by discussing all things devilish. A week’s holiday awaits me, however, so I feel I can finally breathe. But that doesn't mean that my Ecclesiasticals will be any less off, content-wise.

That being said, here’s the final juicy morsel (or should I say, first bite of the last of three juicy morsels) in this series of leftovers from Heaven on Earth. This week, we move away from Europe and into Russia (I know, but St Basil’s is one of a few remaining beauties in this deplorable landscape, with an interesting yet contentious past which unfortunately mirrors much of today’s ongoing horrors—from one despot to another, and repeat).

Here we have the Pokrovsky Sobor / Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed / Cathedral of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat, St Basil’s, Moscow, which, ironically, is often confused with The Kremlin (and vice versa), Russia’s seat of power behind what is happening in Ukraine (though the term, Kremlin, refers both to the government and the place).

St Basil's Cathedral in Moscow. Photo: Petar Milošević -