Kirillov Travel Guide

 Pablos_new Says:  One can not miss wonderfull frescos at the Holly Gates of XVI-XVIII cc..Holly Gates is an entrance to the central part of the monastery. Building includes not only gates but Fiscal Chamber and the Church of Ioann Lestvichnik (John the Staircaser). 

 call_me_rhia Says:  The Kirill-Belozersk Art Museum is located inside the Kirilo-Belozerskiy monastery (Dormition of Virgin) founded at 1397 by St. Kirill. It’s hosted in a simple white house and has a unique collection of sacred icons. There is also a small collection of folk art of the... 

 call_me_rhia Says:  The Monastery is not only surrounded by walls, but by towers, too. They are all different and all have their peculiarities. Some names, just to mention a few, are: Belozerskaja tower, Kazanskaja tower, Ferapontovskaja tower, Glukhaja tower, Kuznechnaja tower. One curiosity:... 

 call_me_rhia Says:  The new walls are those that were built 1654-1680 by local bricklayers under control of a local foreman called Kirill Serkov. He added this tower, too, which looks like a church and blends well with the religious buildings of the Monastery. Unlike the previous walls, these... 

 call_me_rhia Says:  The fortress walls are a mighty sight and show the work of many skilled crafsmen. Before 1650 the entire monastery area enclosed by walls on the Siversky Lake bank and buildings of Northern Monk's Cells and Treasure Chambers. Further fortifications were added between 1650... 

 call_me_rhia Says:  The monastery’s wooden church looks like it doesn’t belong on the ground where it stands, and in fact it doesn’t. It was moved from Borodava village to its present location in 1950, when village was flooded by Sheksna reservoir waters during the industrial reorganization of... 

 call_me_rhia Says:  The Church of St. Eupihimius is a strange looking church, especially fopr its small size topped with a high roof: there are few of such building in Russia to be seen. It was erected in 1646 by Jakov Kostousov and acted as a hospital church. This is one of the first examples... 

 call_me_rhia Says:  This church, the Church of St.John Climacus above the Holy Gates, is built above the monastery’s entry gates. The gates were constructed in 1523, while thechurch above it was erected in 1653. While you walk through the gates you’ll notice that they are adorned with fine... 

 call_me_rhia Says:  The Cathedral of the Dormition is the main Cathedral of the monastery, although not the most beautiful one; it’s also the first stone building of the monastery. The cathedral itself is not a free-standing building, as it is attached from the west to the left with the church... 

 call_me_rhia Says:  The I admired most – possibly the most scenic building in the Kirill-Belozersk monastery , is the Church of Transfiguration. There’s a gate under the Church, and it’s called the water gate, as it leads down to the shore of lake Siverskoe. The gate has two passages: one for... 

 call_me_rhia Says:  Kirillov is a tiny settlement of little traditional wooden houses which hosts one of the most stunning monasteries that I have ever had the chance to visit, the Kirill-Belozersk Monastery. The Monastery was founded in 1397 on the banks of a little lake and contains, among...