Goritsky Monastery

Pereslavl-Zalessky, per. Museum, 4

Sights of Pereslavl-Zalesskiy It is certainly worth visiting the most famous Pereslavl monastery - Goritsky. Almost all the surviving structures date back to the 17th and 19th centuries. The main temple of the monastery is the elegant Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin. Its magnificent multi-tier iconostasis was created in the 1750s

Botik Peter I

Pereslavl district, Veskovo

Sights of Pereslavl-Zalesskiy Museum-Estate "Botik Peter I" - one of the oldest domestic museums. It is remarkable that this is where Peter the Great built the famous Funny Flotilla on Pleshcheyevo Lake. On the territory of the museum-estate there are an obelisk and a monument to Peter the Great, the White Palace, the Bottic house, the Triumphal Gate and the lodge.

The Kremlin of Pereslavl-Zalesskiy

Pereslavl-Zalessky, Sovetskaya

Sights of Pereslavl-Zalesskiy Despite the modest size of the city, in order to inspect all the sights of Pereslavl-Zalesskiy may not be enough for a whole weekend. It starts with the center of the city - the Kremlin, ringed with an ancient earthen rampart 12 m high and 10 m wide.

Nikitsky Monastery

Pereslavl district, with. Nikitskaya Sloboda, st. Zaprudnaya, d. 20

Sights of Pereslavl-Zalesskiy In the 20th century it was again devastated and almost completely rebuilt in the last decade. Nikitsky monastery, whose heads are seen on the exit from the city towards Rostov, founded in the middle of the 12th century by Prince Boris Vladimirovich, in order to convert the local pagan inhabitants to Christianity.

The Nikolsky Monastery

Pereslavl-Zalessky, Gagarin St., 43

Sights of Pereslavl-Zalesskiy The Nikolsky Monastery is located away from the road, between the Yaroslavl highway and the Trubezh river. Near to it, literally at its walls, there is the Smolensk-Kornilievsky church, remained from the Borisoglebsky monastery.

Xin-stone

Pereslavl district, Alexandrova mountain

Sights of Pereslavl-Zalesskiy A few kilometers from Pereslavl-Zalessky on the shores of Pleshcheyevo Lake lies a huge boulder called the "Blue Stone". Currently, it has a blue-gray color and very slowly plunges into the ground. After him, the fame of miraculous has long been fixed.

The pearl of the Golden Ring, the ancient Pereslavl-Zalessky is exceptionally rich in various kinds of monuments .Here, the old white stone Kremlin, and a series of amazing cathedrals of light and slightly pinching Russian traditional architecture, and significant monasteries with centuries of history, and a considerable number of interesting museums, including the charming Museum of Steam Locomotives and the cozy Iron Museum .And the natural sights of the city are certainly recommended for visiting: the picturesque Pleshcheyevo Lake once served as a place for the settlement of the ancient Slavs, and the amazing Xin-stone evokes in their minds beliefs in which each element of nature was endowed with the power that affects human life .

Be sure to visit

To begin acquaintance with Pereslavl-Zalessky by the old kind Russian tradition stands with its center - the Kremlin. Everything here is significant: an ancient earth wall with a height of 12 m and a width of 10 m, and the perimeter of the walls, which, incidentally, is three times the perimeter of the Moscow Kremlin. Its center is the magnificent Transfiguration Cathedral, one of the most ancient temples of Rus, preserved to this day. Also worth a visit here is the Cathedral of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God and the Church of Alexander Nevsky.

At 3 km from modern Pereslavl in the beginning of the 18th century on the shore of Pleshcheyevo Lake a "Poteshnaya flotilla" of Peter the Great appeared. On the shore stood shipyards, sheds, huts and stables. After the amusing fleet has turned into a real one, all these buildings were abandoned, Now the tourist complex "Botik Peter I", which includes a museum-estate with the surviving bot "Fortuna", a camping and a restaurant with a view of the lake, is located at this place.

Other interesting places

Goritsky Monastery is one of the largest and most significant monasteries of the Golden Ring. It was founded in the 14th century under Ivan Kalita, and further development was won by the will of Princess Evdokia, the wife of Dmitry Donskoy. The main buildings here are an elegant Uspensky Cathedral with dark green glazes and a magnificent multi-tiered iconostasis, with a bell tower which opens a dizzying view of the surroundings.

Among other things, you should definitely devote time to the museum collections of the city. The Goritsky Monastery houses a historical, architectural and art museum with a chic collection of icons, church utensils and furniture; canvases of Shishkin, Benoit; library and a collection of wooden sculpture. And still there are charming museums of one thing: the Museum of Steam Locomotives, in which you can learn everything about the ancient railways, and the private Iron Museum with an impressive collection of these irreplaceable things in the household.

Nature of Pereslavl-Zalesskiy

Nature lovers will recommend to go to the shores of Pleshcheeva Lake - the picturesque terrain here offers leisurely walks, you can fish and swim in a small boat cruise .Do not miss the opportunity to see the famous Xin-stone on Alexandrov Hill - a huge boulder of blue-gray color, the remnant of the ancient sanctuary of Rusich, according to the legend (which you will readily be confirmed by local) possessing miraculous properties .And even if you do not believe in such things, an unprecedented shade of boulder makes you think about the diversity of nature .