The Church of the Annunciation (left) was formerly the private chapel of tsars and princes. It boasts nine golden domes and frescoes depicting the Apocalypse. The sixteenth-century Church of St. Michael the Archangel (right) is decorated with striking shell-like tympana. Ivan the Terrible and Peter II are both buried here. Behind it the Ivan the Great Bell Tower peers majestically.

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