Legend states that when the iconic St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow was completed in 1561, Ivan the Terrible ordered its architect, Postnik Yakovlev, blinded so that Yakovlev could never again design anything else as beautiful. Although such a cruel and capricious decision would have been well within Ivan's wheelhouse (after all, there was a reason why he wasn't called "Ivan the Adorable"), some historians gainsay the verisimilitude of this tale due to the fact that Yakovlev apparently did design some other buildings at a later date.
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