#AmazingRussia Kaliningrad 🤍💙❤

🏰Do you know where the famous philosopher Immanuel Kant is buried? In the Cathedral in Kaliningrad.

✅The Cathedral was founded in the fourteenth century.

✅The location in the heart of Königsberg-Kaliningrad, on the island of Kneiphof destroyed by English aviation in 1944, as well as the memorial burial of Immanuel Kant near the northern wall and the dramatic history of destruction and revival made the Cathedral a symbol of the city, its architectural dominant and the main place of attraction for everyone who comes to Kaliningrad.

✅The soil on which the cathedral was built was marshy, and so hundreds of oak poles were put into the ground before the construction of the cathedral could begin. After a relatively short period of almost 50 years, the cathedral was largely completed by 1380, while works on the interior frescoes lasted until the end of the 14th century.

✅The walls of the cathedral were painted by unknown artists and representatives of the school of the outstanding German painter Albrecht Dürer. There is also a beautiful organ there. In 1718-1721 it was replaced by a more powerful one. Today it is considered the largest in Russia.

✅There are Lutheran and Orthodox chapels at the cathedral. There is also an academic concert hall and a museum of Immanuel Kant.

✅In addition, the adjacent open-air square regularly hosts music festivals and fairs.
Hundreds of thousands of people visit the cathedral every year.

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