Suzdal

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The town of Suzdal, northeast of Vladimir, is the jewel of the “Golden Circle”. An important town in competition with Novgorod in the 12th -14th century, it turned into a Sleeping Beauty during the following five centuries when the political power shifted to Moscow. It has been made into a museum, and tourists flock to it in large numbers. However, nowhere can you experience Russian architecture amid a village life which retained all its original color.

The Suzdal Kreml

early 16th cent

Photo RWFG 1977

Suzdal Kreml, the Nativity Cathedral, (1528) and the wooden village church of St Nicholas (1766 ) transported here 50 years ago to protect it from vandalism.

Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin

1528

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Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin (Rozhdesvenskiy Sobor,1528)

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The 16th cent iconostasis .

Savior- Euphemius Monastery

16th - 17th cent

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Originally it was called Spassky Cathedral, later it became known as the Savior Evfimievym Cathedral in honor of the first abbot of the monastery - St. Euphemius of Suzdal. The original wooden buildings of the monastery have not survived. The present ensemble is from the 16th-17th century.

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