Towers in Smolensk

Q: What historical places of Smolensk is worth visiting a lover of architecture of the XII-XVIII centuries?

Academician Igor Grabar called Smolensk a concentration of ancient Russian architecture. The Church of Peter and Paul (1146) is one of the three surviving pre-Mongol buildings of Russia. In the style of the Smolensk Baroque temple of Michael the Archangel (1194, rebuilt in the XVIII century). The Cathedral Mountain ensemble includes bishops’ chambers (1770) in the Elizabethan Baroque style.

Q: Where to go in Smolensk with children: interesting places for family holidays?

The museum "Smolensk flax" presents ancient spinning wheels and looms with interactive elements. Lopatinsky Garden with the remains of the Royal Bastion (1611) and a sculpture of a deer from the estate of William II. The historical museum contains a collection of ancient Russian birch bark letters found during the excavations of the Gnezdov mounds.

Q: Where in Smolensk to make beautiful photos with views of ancient walls and temples?

The observation deck at the monument to Fedor Konya opens a panorama of the fortress walls with 9 preserved towers. Corner tower "Eagle" XVII century spectacularly reflected in the waters of the Dnieper. From the squares on the Cathedral Mountain, shots of the Assumption Cathedral with a gilded iconostasis 28 meters high are obtained.

Q: What little-known sights of Smolensk should be seen by connoisseurs of unusual history?

In the Church of the Immaculate Conception (1894) the only mechanical organ of the company "Walcker" of 1910 was preserved in Russia. The house of the merchant Pavlov (1780) hides rare Gothic vaults in the basements of the province. On the territory of the former Ascension monastery you can find fragments of frescoes of the school of Dionysius.

Q: What famous people are associated with the sights of Smolensk?

In the building of the Alexander real school (1877) taught the future Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky. Prince Gregory Potemkin financed the reconstruction of the Assumption Cathedral after the fire of 1761. In the Smolensk fortress in 1812, General Raevsky held the defense, which is reminiscent of the memorial plaque on the Makhovaya Tower.

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Fortress wall: war and peace a terrible chimera

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Svyatoslav Vernidubovich's bikes. Based on the series "Vampires of the middle lane", filmed in Smolensk.

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Cathedral Hill is a witness of the formation and development of Smolensk

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