Suzdal' Travel Guide

 globetrott Says:  Within the walls of the Pokrowskij-Monastery / Pokrowskij Monastyr / Mariä - Schutz - Kloster you can still see the wooden houses that had been built there for the tourists. Our tourguide told us that just a few days before we had come to Suzdal, these houses were also given... 

 globetrott Says:  Pokrowskij-Monastery / Pokrowskij Monastyr / Mariä - Schutz - Kloster was built in 1364 and during communiste times the whole monastery was used as an Intourist-hotel. A few years ago the monastery was given back to the Russian Othodox Church and now there are nuns again... 

 globetrott Says:  There are lots of lovely wooden houses in Suzdal all over the village, many of them are perfectly restored and will show great decorations, mainly around the frames of the windows.Also when taking a bustour from Ples, like I did, or from Moscow you will pass by hundredes of... 

 globetrott Says:  Lazarus-church / Zerkow Lasarja and its winterchurch are dating back to the year 1667 and they were a donation by the local merchants. The belfry of the Lazarus-winter-church is quite unique with its red and white decorations and tiles, it is considdered to be one of the... 

 globetrott Says:  It is a pity that most of the churches in Suzdal are closed for tourists, many of them might have not yet been restored from the inside like Zerkow Woskressenija Christowa / resurrection-church / Christi-Auferstehungskirche, that was built next to the shopping-arcades and... 

 globetrott Says:  Like in many other old cities of Russia all shops had to be inside the old shopping-arcade during the former centuries. That way it was easy to controll the taxes that had to be payed to the city of Suzdal. Nowadays that is a bit different, but mostly the shopping-arcades... 

 globetrott Says:  Get inside the museum of wooden houses in Suzdal and you will step back into the "good old times" of Russia. Wooden architecture can be seen still in many places in the countryside of Russia but more and more these houses are taken down in order to build new buildings by... 

 globetrott Says:  There are 2 large tiles-ovens like on my main photograph inside the big hall of the archibishop's palace in Suzdal plus various precious paintings and ancient icons.In order to take some photographs there you will need to have the general permit of photography for the city... 

 globetrott Says:  The frescos of the cathedral were under reconstruction in May 2008 and still they look interesting and you will be able to see the most of them anyway. The sceneries of these frescos follow a general rule of the russian orthodox church, what kind of sceneries and what saints... 

 globetrott Says:  In Suzdal you can find this couple performing 2 songs with this oldfashioned musical instrument. They are waiting for customers inside of the museum of wooden houses, at the big water-wheel. They will be glad for your donations and they are also selling some CDs. I bought... 

 globetrott Says:  Demetrius cathedral is another very interesting sight of Vladimir, it is dating back to the year 1194. At first you will see the interesting stone-reliefs at the facade, that is quite unique in russian church-architecture. Inside the cathedral is rather simple with just a... 

 globetrott Says:  Rispoloschenskij monastyr has the german name Gewandniederlegungs-Kloster and it dates back to the 13th century. In 1688 the so-called "Holy gate" was added - see my 2nd photograph , it has 2 gates of different sizes and 2 towers, decorated by red and white tiles.During... 

 globetrott Says:  For this lovely church I could not find any name in my guidebooks, although most of the churches are listed there on a large map. I liked it a lot anyway, because of its beautiful setting in the quiet landscape, far away from the tourist-stream, in a distance of about 500... 

 globetrott Says:  Alexander-monastery / Alexandrowskij monastyr dates back to the year 1240, as a tourist you cannot see its interior, but it looks great also from the distance and from outside. You will see this monastery in a distance, when walking to Pokrowski-monastery !