Aloisio the New, known in Russian as ''Aleviz Novyi'' or ''Aleviz Fryazin'', was an

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architect invited by

Ivan III Ivan III Vasilyevich (russian: Иван III Васильевич; 22 January 1440 – 27 October 1505), also known as Ivan the Great, was a Grand Prince of Moscow and Grand Prince of all Rus'. Ivan served as the co-ruler and regent for his bl ...

to work in

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.Dariusz Kolodziejczyk, ''The Crimean Khanate and Poland-Lithuania: International Diplomacy on the European Periphery'', (Brill, 2011), xxviii. Some Italian scholars have attempted to identify him with the Venetian sculptor Alvise Lamberti da

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, but the point is still widely disputed. On his way to

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, Aloisio was captured by Meñli I Giray, the

khan Khan may refer to: *Khan (inn), from Persian, a caravanserai or resting-place for a travelling caravan *Khan (surname), including a list of people with the name *Khan (title), a royal title for a ruler in Mongol and Turkic languages and used by ...

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. At the khan's court, Aloisio built some sections of the famous

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. The Italianate carved portal of the palace is particularly noteworthy. In 1504 he finally arrived in

, with a letter of recommendation from the khan. He became known to Russians as Aleviz the New, to distinguish him from his namesake, who had been working at the Kremlin since 1494. Aloisio's first and principal work in Moscow was the

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, the burial place of Muscovite monarchs.William Craft Brumfield, ''Landmarks of Russian Architect'', (Routledge, 2013), 76. The cathedral's elaborate Renaissance ornamentation was extensively copied throughout 16th-century Russia. Aloisio the New was last mentioned in 1514, when he was entrusted by Vasily III to build 11 churches in

. Although only parts of these structures have been preserved, there is enough evidence to assume that they were built in strikingly differing styles. The best preserved of these churches is the

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of the

Vysokopetrovsky Monastery Vysokopetrovsky Monastery (Russian: Высокопетровский монастырь, English: ''High Monastery of St Peter'') is a Russian Orthodox monastery in the Bely Gorod area of Moscow, commanding a hill whence Petrovka Street descends ...

(1514–17), considered the earliest rotunda in Russia.

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