WIDE OILER IN SVIYAZHSK

Country tour to the "Island-city "Sviyazhsk" - All on the Maslenitsa

You are waiting for: interactive - folklore program "Maslenitsa" on the island. Guests expect fun games, contests, songs, dances. Those who wish can take part in master classes in pottery, blacksmithing, wood carving. Treat olive pancakes with hot tea, at the end of the festivities burning stuffed Maslenitsa

Not far from Kazan, up the Volga River, stretches a miracle island. Here in 1551, in just 4 weeks, Russian craftsmen from parts harvested near Uglich and fused along the Volga, a wooden fortress was cut down, which became an outpost of Ivan the Terrible's army before the assault on Kazan. The island-city of Sviyazhsk is interesting because on the territory of the modern museum-reserve there are unique religious monuments of architecture: the Church of Nicholas the Wonderworker, the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin, the Cathedral of the Virgin of All Sorrowful Joy and the only monument of wooden architecture of the Volga region - the Trinity Church.

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