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Church of the Intercession on the Nerl

Kitezh

Solovetsky Islands


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Church of the Intercession on the Nerl
The Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin on the Nerl River (Russian: Церковь Покрова на Нерли, Tserkov Pokrova na Nerli) is an Orthodox church and a symbol of medieval Russia.
The church is situated at the confluence of Nerl and Klyazma Rivers in Bogolyubovo, Suzdalsky District, Vladimir Oblast, 13 km north-east of the ancient capital of Vladimir.


The church was commissioned by Andrei Bogolyubsky. The exact construction date is unknown. According to some sources in the literature, it was built in 1165 to commemorate Andrei's slain son Izyaslav. But Izyaslav died in autumn 1165, and the church could not have been built before the winter.
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white stone
museum and the church
together


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Kitezh (Russian: Ки́теж)
was a mythical city on the shores of the Svetloyar lake in the Voskresensky District of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast in central Russia. It appears for the first time in "Kitezh Chronicle", an anonymous book from the late 18th century, believed to have originated among the Old believers.



The legend has it that Georgy II, Grand Prince of Vladimir, first built the town of Maly Kitezh (Little Kitezh) on the Volga River (today's Krasny Kholm). It is sometimes erroneously identified with Gorodets, which was actually founded some 30 years before Georgy's birth in 1189. Later on, the prince crossed the rivers of Uzola, Sanda and Kerzhenets and found a beautiful spot on the shores of the Lake Svetloyar, where he decided to build the town of Bolshoy Kitezh (Big Kitezh). According to folk etymology, the name of the town came from the royal residence of Kideksha (near Suzdal), ransacked by the Mongols in 1237, while Max Vasmer labels the place-name as "obscure".
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the "Russian Atlantis ".
submerged into the lake
legend


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The Solovetsky Islands


The Solovetsky Islands are located in the White Sea in northwestern Russia, less than 100 miles from the arctic circle. The seascape's austere beauty and the islands' remote location appealed to two Russian Orthodox monks who founded a monastery there in the 15th century.
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monastery on
an island in the sea
smell of algae



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