Sviyazhsk Island

Island town Sviyazhsk.

Where Sviyaga merges with the Volga, It stands as if Pushkin’s animated fairy tale about the island of Buyan, the island-city of Sviyazhsk. A huge, beautiful island on a high mountain, rising right in the middle Great river. An island with an amazing history that you can’t find more on everything. n white light.

A city-fortress built only by for 4 weeks in 1551, served as an outpost to Ivan IV the Terrible during the capture Kazan. The uniqueness of the island - in the only example of the ancient Russian urban art on the scale of a one-time laying of wooden buildings and structures.

After 1917, Sviyazhsk came to Desolation, destroyed and desecrated church shrines, monuments history and culture. Only in 1960, Sviyazhsk was declared a monument of history and Russian culture. Today the island-city of Sviyazhsk is included in the preliminary list UNESCO cultural and natural heritage.

Most of the tour in Sviyazhsk will be dedicated to inspection of the architectural complex of the museum-reserve "Island-City" Sviyazhsk, which includes priceless treasures of the Orthodox faith: the Council of All Joy (1898-1906) - one of the main architectural dominants Sviyazhsk; the oldest wooden Trinity Church in the republic St. John-Predechensky women's farmstead of the Assumption Monastery (16th century), church in the name of the savior Nicholas and the cathedral in honor of the Assumption of the Most Holy Mother of God Sviyazhsky male Uspensko-Godroditsky monastery (16th century), inside which There are more than 1000 square meters of frescoes of the XVI century, among them - the rarest. Images of Tsar John IV and Metropolitan Macarius of Moscow.

In addition to religious sanctuaries, during You will be interested in the historical part of the city - dwelling houses, places and institutions of the XIX century (the house of the merchant F.T. Kamenev), Almshouse building, administrative buildings, ruins of Nikolskaya and Tikhvinskaya churches of the XVIII century, buildings and structures of the early XX century.

Having admired the panorama of the Volga Far and imbued with the atmosphere of ancient temples, in the Equestrian courtyard you can visit the fair of folk crafts, shoot with a bow and crossbow and even chain For good luck!