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 Sigtuna - Aincient church by Kuznetsov_Sergey
From her childhood Ingigerd (she was born in 1001) differed from others with her beauty and high spiritual talents. She was brought up in the house of parents. Ingigerd was well educated for those times. She was able to read and write, she received necessary religious knowledge.
Ingigerd was married with Jarislafe - Russian prince Jaroslav, who was after nicknamed Mudry (Wise). From first days of her life with Jaroslav Ingigerd tried to be useful to him though frequently the young wife appeared in the epicenter of interstine struggle of Russian princes.
Jaroslav's and Ingigerd-Swedish's long-term safe matrimony created especially favorable atmosphere at a princely court yard. Never before and, alas, never after there were so many remarkable persons to the most different destinies. Exiles found shelter there. Here there Future kings and princes passed school of military valour and honour there. Princess sheltered the British king's sons Edwin and Edward in Kiev. The Swedish prince Harald and the Hungarian king's son Andrey lived there. Even former groom of Ingigerd, Olaf Sacred (Thick), having lost a throne, found a shelter at Jaroslav's court yard. In christening Ingigerd received Irina's name, and after acceptance monastic custom - Annas (Ingigerd was the first princess in Russia who accepted an orthodox nunhood, that having set an example piety and belief).
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 Sigtuna - Ruins by Kuznetsov_Sergey
A gravestone in the Sofia Novgorod Cathedral has an inscription: "Sacred, wellfare princess Anna, mother of sacred wellfare prince Vladimir Jaroslavich, the Swedish queen, the daughter of the first Swedish King Olaf, named in her ground Ingigerda who was the bride of Olaf the Norwegian King before, then a spouse of Jaroslav Vladimirovich Novgorodsky and Kievsky, died in summer 1051."
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 Sigtuna - Runic stown by Kuznetsov_Sergey
Sigtuna's history is full of riddles which wait for the decision … From the XIth century merchants from Novgorod constantly lived in the city, there were stone orthodox temples.
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 Moscow - Historical
museum - Sigtuna gate
copy by Kuznetsov_Sergey,
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It is remarkable, that in XVII century the Swedish king during the Sweden-Polish intervention tried to return the gate to Sweden, but his marshal Delagardi, being afraid of anger of the townspeople, left them on their place.
A copy of Sigtuna gate you can see in the Moscow Historical museum. This copy was made in the end of the XIXth and consider one of the most interesting exhibit of the museum. I came to have a look at it on sunday, October, 8 - just after I return from Sigtuna... A lot of impressions!
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Produced (in the basic part) in 1152 -1154 in Magdebourg and representing some kind of a sculptural iconostasis, this gate were mounted after a supply to Novgorod not in an original form, and with infringement of a former composition. Many parts were lost by transportation and replaced by reliefs and ornaments from other monuments of the similar sort a little bit differed on style.
All these facts and many others prove that the gate were brought to Novgorod not as a result of purchase (the initial composition in this case would be carefully fixed and details would be kept as whole), but as a military extraction.
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 Sigtuna's goose by Kuznetsov_Sergey
We were walking along and saw an unusual goose. It has drawn our attention and was remembered for ever like in a photo.
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 Uppsala - Erik's bural place
(Sigtuna's founder) by Kuznetsov_Sergey
His burial place is in the Cathedral of Uppsala.
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A royal palace in the countryside (so a popular picnic destination). The last king to use it modernised the interior so that is now in empire style while the castle itself is from the 17th century. Leave a Comment
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At Viby By you can see how agriculture used to be. The 19th century village (with different themes to the houses) still has a distinct centre unlike many Swedish villages who fell victims of an agricultural reformation by the Scot Rutger Mclean. Only a few kilometres outside Sigtuna, this is also a popular picnic spot. It has also been used as a movie location ("Rid inatt" and "Glasblåsarens barn" for those of you into Swedish movies). Leave a Comment
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During the summer when the castle is open you can find it open from middle of June to middle of August. All days between 11.00 to 17.00. Leave a Comment
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