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>> Sergiev Posad (Zagorsk) & Pereslavl Zalessky
Some 70 km from the capital is Sergiev Posad - the town around the Trinity Monastery of St. Sergius, one of Russia's most important religious and historic landmarks, a place of pilgrimage of the Russian Orthodox Church and one of the most interesting museums where one may find the icons of Andrei Rublev and other famous masters of the 15th-18th centuries. The architectural ensemble of the monastery is a unique combination of different architectural styles forming the most impressive and harmonious composition. Worth mentioning are the Old Russian Applied Art Museum and the Art Museum.
Another 25 km on Yaroslavsky highway and you are in Pereslavl-Zalessky. The town was established in 1152 by Prince Yuri Dolgoruky at the bank of Pleshcheev lake. The ground embankments of the Kremlin wall built by Yuri Dolgoruky and the white-stoned Cathedral of the Resurrection of the Savior are still here in town along with the tent-roofed Church of Peter the Metropolitan and the Forty Saints' Church. Three kilometers away from town there is a museum-estate "Botik", were the remnants of the first Russian river flotilla are collected.
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