Yaroslavl

Many poetic pages have been devoted to Yaroslavl, to the city’s inimitable architecture, its heroic past and famous craftsmen and stonemasons, potters and blacksmiths, painters and sculptors. They created the numerous churches, which immerse contemporary visitors with striking and original beauty. This city developed a splendid culture of its own which merited its place in the history of Russia along with ancient Kiev, Novgorod and Moscow. Today Yaroslavl is a large city but the original and extremely picturesque corners of the ancient Yaroslavl are still preserved. The entire panorama of the Kotorosl embankment consists of a chain of magnificent, unique churches culminating in the monumental and majestic ensemble of the white-stone Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery behind which raises the fine redbrick silhouette of the Church of the Apparition of Christ. The ancient Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery now houses one of the most extensive museums of early Russian architecture, icon painting, ethnography and folk arts.