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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 in Suzdal
(Roghdestvensky Sobor)
((1158-1160.
Rebuilt in 1225. One of the earliest surviving examples of Vladimir-Suzdalian
architecture.) |
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The Golden
Gate in Vladimir (Zolotiye
Vorota)
(1158-1164.
A unique specimen of early Russian military architecture. It was used as a fortress
and a triumphal entrance to the city.) |
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The
Staircase Tower and passageway of the Prince Castle in Bogolyubovo (Bogolyubsky
Dvorets)
(1158-1165. Tower
and passageway - 12th century. The white stone
Palace Cathedral at Bogolyubovo, which Andrei Bogolyubsky
erected here in 12th
century was badly damaged, and replaced by the present building
at 1751). |
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The
Virgin's Assumption Cathedral in
Vladimir (Uspensky
Sobor)
(1158-1189. The Cathedral was the centre
of political and religious life in Russia. It was the major Russian Cathedral
up to the middle 15th century. Among the most valuable attributes of the Cathedral
there are the frescoes by Andrei Rublev and Daniil Chorny, made in 1408.) |
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Our Saviour Monastery
in Suzdal (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
in Suzdal (Pokrovsky 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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The
Archbishop's Chambers
in Suzdal (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) |