Last glow of light

I managed to shoot this at last light with the sun reaching only the top of the church (aided a bit by the lamps).  Another beautiful clear cold evening.

This is what the [url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Conception_Monastery_1882.jpg]Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin[/url] looked like in 1882 with its original Gothic domes.  Largely destroyed by the Bolsheviks, the church was looted and services terminated in 1925; later the adjacent convent buildings were used for some time as a prison for juvenile delinquents, later as a school.  The church was rebuilt in the 2000s and a decsion made at the time to replace the Gothic style domes with Orthodox domes.  During the excavations made as part of the restoration many interesting artefacts were uncovered including the tusk of a 7,000 year old mammoth!

This view in 1867 shows the Church in its Gothic form (in the middle of photo) but. just as interesting, are the empty banks of the Moscow River behind it.  Now of course fully developed.