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Peter I on his deathbed, oil on canvas by Ivan Nikitich Nikitin. 1725. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.

Bell tower of Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv, built in the Cossack Baroque style between 1699-1706, funded by Hetman Ivan Mazepa. The height of the bell tower is 76 metres.

A trial in times of Rus' Truth (Russkaya Pravda), watercolour by Ivan Bilibin, 1890s.

Illustration from the Russian folktale The Frog Princess, by Ivan Bilibin, 1899.

View of the Cathedral of the Archangel (1508) from the Ivan the Great Bell Tower (1508), with the Cathedral of the Annunciation (1489) in the background. Kremlin, Moscow, Russia. Photo by Ludvig14, taken in 2014.

Domovoi, a Slavic household spirit, illustration by Ivan Bilibin, 1934.

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