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Saint Boris and Saint Gleb Church at Kideksha (Borisoglebskaya
Tserkov)
(1152.
The decision to build this Church was justified by such events: the Russian princes
Boris and Gleb, later glorified by the Orthodox Church as the first Russian saints,
had stopped on this spot, during their campaigns from Rostov and Murom against
Kiev. The royal fortified residence was built here on the bank of the Nerl,
near the mouth of the Kamenka. The ensemble includes
the Church of Saint Stephen (1780.)) |
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The
Nativity Cathedral (Roghdestvenski
Sobor)
((1158-1160. Rebuilt in 1225. One of
the earliest surviving examples of Vladimir-Suzdalian architecture.) |
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The
Town Ramparts (Gorodskye Valy)
(For
the first time mention the stone buildings of the Archbishop's Chambers, near
to the Cathedral, in accounts of the great fire of 1577. The extremely complex
ensemble, which we can see today, consists of buildings erected between the fifteenth
and eighteenth centuries) |
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The
Archbishop's Chambers (Arhiereyskie
Palaty)
(For
the first time mention the stone buildings of the Archbishop's Chambers, near
to the Cathedral, in accounts of the great fire of 1577. The extremely complex
ensemble, which we can see today, consists of buildings erected between the fifteenth
and eighteenth centuries) |
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Deposition of the Robe Convent (Rizopologhenskiy Monastir)
(16th-17th centuries. It
is possible it was found in 13th century. The
Convent is located at once outside northern border of New Settlement on an opposite
edge of a gully) |
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Assumption Church (Uspenskaya Tserkov)
(1650. The Church is situated inside the ramparts of the Kremlin. Was rebuilt
in 1720.) |
 | The
Our Saviour Monastery (Spaso-Yevfimiev Monastir)
(14th century (16th-17th centuries). It
is situated on the high left bank of the Kamenka, to the north from city. An account
of the life of the Monastery 's first abbot Yevfimiy says, that he built a stone
Church there at this very early stage. It's author lived in the sixteenth century,
when the Monastery had several new stone Churches) |
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Intercession Convent (Pokrovskiy Monastir)
(14th century (16th-18th centuries). The Convent was founded in
1364. The present buildings date back to the first half of the sixteenth century
and later. The Convent makes impression of womanly majestic severity, if it is
possible so to be expressed) |
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Saint Lazarus Church (Lazarevskaya Tserkov)
(1667. The
present five-domed Church has an exterior typical of many seventeenth-century
Churches. It has a cube-shaped main body with three apses, differently designed
portals on each wall, a rich cornice of horseshoe-shaped kokoshniks, and a tiling
band) The
Saint Antipius Church (Antipievskaya Tserkov)
(1745. This
heated Church has a fine decorative crest of open metalwork, running along the
ridge of the roof) |
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The
Church of Holy Virgin Mary of Tikhvin icon (Tikhvinskaya Tserkov)
(Late 17th century. This Church stands on the site
of the old Saint Andrew Monastery. The Church's sanctuary has not survived and all that remains is the
slender main body of the Church. During Soviet time the Church
has been deprived by the altar part) |
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The
Saint Alexander Convent
(Alexandrovskiy Monastir)
(Late 17th century. The small Convent of Saint Alexander is situated on high coast of
river Kamenka. According to seventeenth-century records
it was founded by Saint Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky in 1240.
Through
the gates on an open piece of ground stands the large Church of
the Ascension, built by the Convent in 1695 on funds provided
by Peter the Great's mother, the Tsaritsa Natalia Kirillovna
in place of a tent-shaped wooden Church. The tall bell-tower is
situated separately. ) |
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Entry into Jerusalem Church (Vkhodoierusalimskaya Tserkov)
(1707. The
Church is situated in the southwest corner of the towns market place)
The
Holy Great-Martyr Paraskeva (by the Friday) Church (Pyatnitskaya
Tserkov)
(1772. We can see this Church near from the Entry
into Jerusalem Church. These two Churches once formed a very
attractive ensemble. They were originally surrounded by a low
brick wall with unusual stone gates)
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Emperor Constantine Church (Tsarekonstantinovskaya Tserkov)
(1707. This Church is situated in the northeast corner of the central
city square, in depth of quarter behind houses. It is very monumental and sumptuous
Church) The
Our Lady of the Sorrows Church (Skorbyashenskaya Tserkov)
(1787. Northeast of the Emperor Constantine Church stands the small
heated Church of Holy Virgin Mary of the Sorrows, connected to a tent-shaped bell-tower) |
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John the Baptist Church (Predtechenskaya Tserkov)
(1720. If
we entrance to city from Vladimir, we would see this
Church on the
left. It stands on
the site of an old wooden tent-shaped Church, right on the edge of the moat, around
the Kremlin) |
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Resurrection Church (Voskresenskaya Tserkov)
(Built
in 1720 and restored in 1958. The
present Church stands on the site of a wooden, tent-shaped one of the same name.
Its stone bell-tower was built in the same style as the old Church and, like the
latter, also became the vertical focal point of the surrounding ensemble) The
Our Lady of Kazan Church (Kazanskaya Tserkov)
(1739. It
is the small heated Church, seem to reflect something of the old group of wooden
Churches. This is evident in the way the architect concentrated on the bell-tower,
the most important element in the ensemble) |
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Nativity of Holy Virgin Mary Church (Tserkov Roghdestva Bogotoditsy)
(1739. The Church
has tiny dome and plain walls. It is a very cosy little building. Its west side
is adjoined by a bell-tower with a slender, slightly concave tent-shaped spire) The
Epiphany Church (Kreshensakya Tserkov)
(1781.
The summer Church of
the Epiphany, and the small heated winter Church of the Nativity, form
a typical Suzdal pair, attractively
situated in the water-meadows by the Kamenka) |
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Prophet Elijah Church (Iliyinskaya Tserkov)
(1744. This
Church is situated on the Ivanov Hill, on the spot, where there was a seventeenth-century
settlement of recluse) |
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The
Sign of Holy Virgin Mary Church (Znamenskaya
Tserkov)
(1749. The Presentation Convent in ancient (13th
century) has been situated here. The portal of the Church, with
its shallow arch, is submerged in shadows by an impressive porch
with stocky, faceted pillars. It is possible, that the porch
was originally surmounted by a bell-tower)
The
Deposition of the Robe Church (Rizopologhenskaya Tserkov)
(1777. The Church was built by the Zubkov merchant family.
Classical lines it also reveals traces of early Suzdalian architecture) |
| The
Saint Vasiliy Monastery (Vasilievskiy Monastir)
(13th century (1662). The Monastery was founded in the thirteenth
century to the east from city. Parts of the present walls and building date back
to the seventeenth century.) |
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wooden Church of Saint Nicholas (Nikolskaya Tserkov)
(1766.
This Church is situated in the west part of the Kremlin.
It was built in the village Glotovo and transferred to Suzdal in 1960.) |
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Saint Boris and Saint Gleb Church (Borisoglebskaya Tserkov)
(17th-18th
centuries, probably. It
is the only building in Suzdal, which shows a fairly strong influence of Russian
seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Baroque architecture. The
Monastery of Saint Boris and Saint Gleb was founded here before the sixteenth
century.) |
| The
Our Lady of Smolensk Church (Smolenskaya Tserkov)
(1696-1707. The
larger Church of ensemble has many features in common with other buildings belonging
to the same period. It has the cornice of indented cut stone, balusters and small
kokoshniks.) The
Saint Simeon Church (Simeonovskaya Tserkov)
(1749. The
small winter Church) |
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Museum of Wooden Architecture (Moozey Derevyannogo zodchestva)
(On this spot was situated an oldest Monastery of Suzdal,
the Monastery of Saint Demetrios, built at the end of the eleventh century) |