The Kazan Cathedral, a church designed on St Peter's Basilica in Rome. Peter Kovalev\TASS via Getty Images Also see: World Cup stories: Jayaditya Gupta in Russia ...

Next to it, Šaimiev had the Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation restored. In 2005, under the walls of the Kazan Kremlin, he assigned land to Catholics to build their own church.

But German photographer Markus Brunetti has taken a somewhat techie approach to capturing detailed images of such historic monuments, the subject of his new show, "Markus Brunetti: FACADES ...