YAKOVLEV, Postnik

Russian architect. It is thought that his full name was Ivan Yakovlevich Barma (Postnik means "Faster", a term used for several religious figures). He is famous as one of the architects and builders of Saint Basil's Cathedral on Red Square in Moscow. In cooperation with another master, Ivan Shirlai, designed the walls of the Kazan Kremlin and the CathedralGLOSSARYThe principal church of a province or diocese, where the throne of the bishop is placed. For reasons lost to time and tradition, a cathedral always faces west - toward the setting sun. The altar is placed at the east end. The main body, or nave, of the cathedral is usually divided into one main and two side aisles. These lead up to the north and south transepts, or arms of the cross, the shape in which a cathedral is usually formed. of the AnnunciationGLOSSARYthe term for the event described in the Gospel according to St. Luke, when the Angel Gabriel brings the Virgin Mary the news that she is to bear her son, Jesus Christ. The Annunciation was among the most widespread pictorial subjects of European art during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. in Kazan in 1561 and 1562, just after the completion of St. Basil's. In 1588, he also designed the northeast chapelGLOSSARYa small separate place for worship, either part of a large church or a separate building. of St. Basil's (where Basil himself is buried).