Novgorod, Vladimir-Suzdal, Ryazan, Serge Posad

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Wooden Church Museum in Novgorod

 

 

Kremlin walls of Novgorod the city was founded by Rurik the Viking (Varangian)

Novgorod means New Town

Savior Tower

Saint Sophia 1058

 

Battlement Church

Kukui Watch Tower

Church of Saint Procopius 1529

Church of Saint Procopius 1529

Cathedral of Our Lady of the Sign 1682 - 1688

Peasants for the most part were uneducated for this reason the stories of the bible were painted on the walls of the church

 

Cathedral of St Nicholas foundation laid in the time of Prince Mistislav 1113

Prince Yaroslav Market Square Novgorod

Church of the Holy Women 1508-1511

Church of St Paraskeva Piatnitsa 1207 an extremely rare example of Russian architecture

Assumption  1135

The Church of St John the Baptist-on-Opoki 1127-1130

Saint George  12th Century

The Church of Saint Blaise 1407 built on the site of a wooden church of the same name 1184

Yurev Monastery 12th Century

 

Vladamir-Suzdal

First mentioned in the Chronicles in 1064

http://www.museum.vladimir.ru/eng/towns/suzdal/suzdal_e?menu=suzdal

 

Convent of the Intercession of the Mother of God 1364

The monastery of our Savior and St. Euthimius

Entrance tower to the monastery and the walls, a 17th century monument of defensive architecture

The belfry of the monastery

Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Savior

Peasants for the most part were uneducated for this reason the stories of the bible were painted on the walls of the church

 

The Assumption refectory church

The Golden Gate 1158-1164 built in the time of Prince Andrei Bogolyubsky

1222-1225 the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin

Bell tower 1810 architect A.Vershinsky

Assumption Cathedral 1158-1160

Church of Saint Dimitri 1190 in the time of Prince Vsevolod

noticeable relief’s of King David of the Bible, on three facades. Alexander the Great on the southern wall and Samson on the western side. Prince Vsevolod of Vladimir - the founder of this cathedral - is on the northern facade  

 

Church of the Resurrection Seventeenth Century

 

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Holy Trinity Monastery in Serge Posad

 

 

 

The Holy Trinity Cathedral 1422

Church of Saint John the Baptist over the Holy Gates 1699

 

Saint Sergius Refectory Church 1692

 

Church of Saints Zosima and Savvatiy 1635

 

 

 

John the Evangelist Monastery 11th century Ryazan Region

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ryazan Kremlin

The city is thought to have been founded in 1095

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kolomna Kremlin Built in 1525- during the Time of Vasily III

 

 

 

 

Church of Tikhvinski icon to the Mother of God 1776