The first , white-stone cathedral on this spot was raised in 1397-1405 under Grand Prince Vasilii I, the son of Dimitry Donskoy, and frescoed by Theophan the Greek and Andrey Rublev. Having suffered the ravages of time by the end of the century, the church was torn down in 1482 as far as the lower level, and a new cathedral built on this foundation in 1484-1489 by artisans from Pskov. Once the Annunciation Cathedral was directly adjacent to the living quarters of the Grand Princes and Tsars, and was in certain sense their parish church. Many of them were married there, and there was no sovereign who did not make some sort of a rich donation, be it for decoration of the interior or precious vestments and church plate. Much of this was lost forever, if not at the hand of the French in 1812, then through the communists. Preciuos for their age and quality, the treasures of the cathedral were sold off, or, at best, wound up in museums.