40+ Odd Facts About Russia You Didn’t Know About 18. St Basil’s Cathedral It was built by Postnik Yakovlev and it’s said that Ivan the Terrible was blinded afterwards, so he could never build anything like it again. Prev Next Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44