2024

SLEEP CATHEDRAL

Churches cathedrals basilicas and chapels

The cathedral was built in the th century instead of two churches dating back to the th and th centuries. Above all, don't miss its frescoes whose restoration was completed well after that of the church of the Resurrection (see below). Inside, in addition to a 1730 baroque iconostasis, which resembles that of the Goritski Monastery, you can see the tomb of Metropolitan Ionas Sisoievitch. Nor do the handles of the doorway of the church of origin, which dates from the th century, fail.

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2024

CHURCH ST-JEAN THE THEOLOGIAN

Religious buildings

It was the last church built under Metropolitan Ionas in 1683. Past the entrance of the church, we find the scenes of the Last Judgment. The staircase has thirty-three steps, the number of years that Jesus spent on Earth. This church is the Kremlin's entrance.

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2024

THE BELL TOWER OF THE DORMITORY CATHEDRAL

Churches cathedrals basilicas and chapels

The tradition of bells, so vivid in all the cities of the Golden Ring, is even more sensitive here, where carillon requires expert handling. In the Middle Ages, the bells were the safest means of communication, the link between the Kremlin and the population, demanded by jangling to come together on the Red Square in front of the bell. It dates back to the th century and the bells were fondues at that time. The most important of these weighs more than three tonnes. Their use was forbidden after the revolution, around 1928, they were taken down and locked. In the years 1950 to 1990, the bells, however, served little. It was when some party's cleric went to Rostov and showed, after a few glasses of vodka, the desire to hear them. However, we continued to sell the recordings regularly, on discs or cassettes, to perestroika where the bells were again in honour and directly known by all those who had listened to them on tape or vinyl. Rostov coaches learn their art from the monks of Pskov, who are educated in ancient books that describe technical prowess to express tones and half tones. They are now being sounded by hand, by the rope and by pressing the pedals.

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2024

CHURCH OF THE VIRGIN

Religious buildings

This beautiful church, built in 1693, after the death of Ionas in the baroque Style style, today houses an exhibition of the metropolitan parade clothes.

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