Tutaev. Two banks in the same river

I invite you on an excursion to the ancient Russian city of Tutaev, located on opposite banks of the Volga and until the 19th century was two different cities - Romanov and Borisoglebsk.

We will start the tour from the left-bank Romanov side, which, according to local residents, is built "on seven hills, on seven keys and on seven ravines." Peter the Great compared the banks of Romanov with the “Swiss landscape”. We will visit the territory of the former Kremlin and climb the preserved defensive earthen ramparts of the 15th century, which offer beautiful views. Visit the 17th-century Holy Cross Cathedral with preserved frescoes by Guri Nikitin and the Pokrovsky Church with the famous icon “Additions of the Mind”. We will also see temples located on the city hills, visit Kustodievskaya embankment, where the famous artist painted the painting “Walking on the Volga”, pass through the streets where the famous Gaidai comedy “12 chairs” was once filmed. Today, left-bank Tutaev with its cute houses, carved casings on windows, gardens and children on the streets, playing “cossack robbers” or “lapta”, as it stopped somewhere in the 19th century.

Then we will cross to the right bank - the former Borisoglebsk settlement, where we will visit the pearl of Tutaev - the Resurrection Cathedral with the largest icon of the ancient Orthodox world of the Savior of the All-Merciful (278 * 320 cm), under which they climb to fulfill the wish. Also, if you wish, you can visit the park of the Soviet period, where plaster pioneers and Komsomol members are gathered in a small square, there are busts of Stalin, Tutaev, a sculpture of Lenin - all these monuments once stood in the squares and streets of the city.

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