Red Fortress: History and Illusion in the Kremlin (99 page)

USSR
see
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)

Ustinov, Dmitry

Uvarov, Aleksei

Uvarov, Sergei

Uzbek (Mongol Khan)

Valdai Club

Valuev, Petr Stepanovich

Vasily II Vasilevich, Tsar

Vasily III Ivanovich, Tsar

Vasily IV, Tsar (Vasily Shuisky)

Vasnetsov, Apollinary

Vasnetsov, Victor

Vedenin, Aleksandr

Vedomosti
(newspaper)

Veltman, Alexander

Venice, Italy

Versailles, France

Vesnin, Leonid

Vesnin, Victor

Vetterman

Viatichi

Vienna, Austria

View of Moscow from the Stone Bridge

Vikings, campaigns and settlements

Vilno, Lithuania

Vinogradov, N. D.

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugene

Virgin of Vladimir (icon)

Viskovatyi, Ivan

Vitberg, Alexander

Vitruvius

Vladimir (city); Dormition Cathedral

Vladimir Monomakh

Vladimir of Kiev

Vladimir of Staritsa

Vlasik, Nikolai

Vodovzvodnaya tower

Volga River

Volkogonov, Dmitry

Volpe, Gian-Battista della

Voltaire

Voronin, Nikolai

Voroshilov, Kilment

Voskresenskoe

Voyce, Arthur

White City

White Russia

William III of England

Winter Palace, St Petersburg

Witte, Count

Wladislaw of Poland

women: Ascension Convent as burial place for royal women; in the Kremlin; as rulers

workers’ day, May 1st

Wren, Christopher

xenophobia, in Putin’s Russia

Yagoda, Genrikh

Yannisaari, site of St Petersburg

Yaroslavl

Yeltsin, Boris: background; ordered demolition of house where Nicholas II was murdered; rise in popularity; voted Russian President; and 1991 coup; moves into the Kremlin; seizes assets of Communist Party; rivalry with Gorbachev; handed power by Gorbachev; succeeds Gorbachev as President; dissloves parliament and orders assault on the White House; approves new constitution, 1993; attends re-interment of Romanov family; presented with gifts from Queen Elizabeth II; corruption investigations; resigns as President; on the Kremlin

Yeltsin, Elena, corruption investigations

Yeltsin, Naina

Yeltsin, Tatiana, corruption investigations

Yoasaf, Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia

Yona, Metropolitan of Kiev and all Russia

Yov, Metropolitan of Moscow and first Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church

Yurev-Zakharin, Nikita Romanovich

Yury of Moscow

Yury Vasilevich (brother of Ivan the Terrible)

Zabelin, Ivan;
The History of the City of Moscow;
The Home Life of the Muscovite Tsars

Zaraysk

Zavidovo (hunting lodge)

Zhilardi, Dementy

Zhirinovsky, Vladimir

Zhukov, Georgy

Zhurin, Oleg

Zinoviev, Grigory

Zoe Palaeologina
see
Sofiya Palaeologina

Zolkiewski, Stanislaw

Zotov, Nikita

Zubalovo

Zubov, Aleksei

Zubov, Ivan

Zvenigorod

Zyuganov, Gennady

1. Simon Ushakov (1626–1686),
The Tree of the State of Muscovy,
1668.

2. Kremlin Cathedral of the Dormition.

3. Sixteenth-century Moscow School:
The Entry into Jerusalem (Palm Sunday).

4.
Blessed Be the Hosts of the Heavenly Tsar
(mid-sixteenth century).

5. Joan Blaue’s
Kremlenagrad
(1662).

6. Bell tower of Ivan the Great.

7. Celebrations in the Faceted Palace for the coronation of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov, July 1613.

8.
A Palm Sunday Procession before the Kremlin,
drawing based on sketches by the German diplomat Adam Olearius (d. 1671).

9. Pieter Picart (1638–1737) and students,
Panorama of Moscow in 1707
(detail).