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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Unpaginated.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. In English and Russian. Apparent First English-Russian edition (NAP). Illustrated with many full-page color reproductions of paintings. As you can see from the photos, the covers are in very good condition. They are clean and don't have any conspicuous wear. The corners and edges are in very good condition. The page edges are very clean. The inset illustration on the front looks perfect. The silver lettering on the front is very bright and unworn. The spine has some slant at both the top and bottom. However the book is very solidly bound from cover to cover. There are no cracks or spaces to be found anywhere. In fact, the pages are all nicely tight. These pages are also exceptionally clean. I don't see any soiling at all. There are no markings. No attachments of any kind. And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere in the book. The book is quite rare. 'The Greater Church of Christ's Ascension is one of the largest parish churches in downtown Moscow. It is a major landmark of Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street and Nikitskiye Vorota Square. The church was commissioned by Prince Potemkin, the owner of a neighbouring messuage, shortly before his death. The yellow-colored Neoclassical building was erected between 1798 and 1816. The name of the architect is not known for certain. It has been attributed either to Matvey Kazakov, who built numerous Moscow churches in the reign of Catherine the Great, or Ivan Starov, who frequently worked for Potemkin. The edifice was overhauled to Osip Bove's designs after the 1812 Fire of Moscow. It stood unfinished for several decades and was not completed until 1848. The church holds historical significance for several reasons. It was in this church that Alexander Pushkin married Natalia Goncharova, a fact commemorated by their fountain statues on Nikitskie Vorota Square. It was also there that Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow held his last service. This is commemorated by a side-chapel dedicated in his name. The church was closed during the Soviet period, between 1931 and 1990. A 17th-century tent-like belfry, the sole remnant of an earlier church on the site, was demolished in 1937 and replaced by a statue of Aleksey Tolstoy, the "Red Count". The current belfry, freely based on Kazakov's designs and similar in style to the main church building, is of recent construction.'.