From the main town square we can pass to interesting seventeenth-century building, the Cathedral of the Saint Vasiliy Monastery, which was founded in the thirteenth century to the east from city.
Parts of the present walls date back to the seventeenth century. The Cathedral was built between 1662-1669 in place of an old wooden, tent-shaped Church. It has the same two-pillar structure, that we can observed in the Saint Lazarus Church. Unlike the festive appearance of the latter, standing with its five domes in a busy part of the town near to the market place, the Cathedral of this Monastery produces a very austere impression.
It has three domes, like the old Cathedral in the Kremlin, small portals and a few plain windows. Nearby stands the two-storey refectory Church of the Purification, built at the end of the seventeenth century and remarkable for its intersecting double-hip roof similar to that on the Church of the Archbishop's Chambers in the Kremlin. The Cathedral, refectory Church and walls were all restored in 1959-1961 by V.V. Gasperovich.
Through the Monastery the way from city to one of the earliest surviving specimens of Vladimir-Suzdalian architecture, the twelfth-century Church in village Kideksha lays.