St Basil’s Cathedral 450th anniversary marked by Google Doodle

By Urvi Nopany 12/7/2011 The 450th anniversary of St Basil’s Cathedral has been commemorated with a Google Doodle. Russia celebrates today the 450th anniversary of the Russian Orthodox church, located in Moscow’s Red Square, with the opening of an exhibition honouring the ‘holy fool’ Basil the Blessed, to whom the iconic church is dedicated. The exhibition opens today after a decade-long restoration of the cathedral that cost 390 million rubles (£8.7m)