St. Sophia Cathedral: south gate

There are three gates in total in Sofia, two of which have this appearance and, of course, are not as interesting as the Magdeburg Gate. And once upon a time there were the Vasilievsky Gates, made of copper and “written in gold,” and the notorious Ivan, who was Terrible and a tyrant, unlike the occupier Delagardi, ordered them to be taken out of Novgorod to the Alexander Sloboda, where they still remain in the Trinity Cathedral .