Highlights of Pereslavl-Zalessky





Pereslavl-Zalessky (Pereslavl beyond the forest) is one of the ancient cities of central Russia. Prince Yury Dolgoruky founded the city in 1152 as a defensive stronghold. It is located about 130 km from Moscow on the shore of Lake Pleshcheyevy at the mouth of the river Trubezh. Here, in 1693, the young Peter the Great built and launched a “funny fleet”, which became the prototype of the first Russian fleet on the Baltic Sea. It was here in 1692 that the parade of the first Russian military flotilla took place.

The pearl of the city’s architecture is the Transfiguration Cathedral, the oldest preserved monument in Central Russia. The city has many ancient churches and cathedrals worthy of your attention: the Theodore Monastery, the Nikitsky Monastery, the Assumption Cathedral, the Church of St. Nicholas, the Church of All Saints and others.

Like the echo of pagan times, at the foot of the Alexander Mountain the legendary Sin-Kamen (Blue Stone) rises, a place of pagan worship. The population of the city is 45,000 people. The main industries are textile, construction and food.

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Temple of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste

Temple of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste

The Church of the Forty Martyrs is an Orthodox church in the city of Pereslavl-Zalessky. The church is located at the mouth of the River Trubezh in the historic Rybnaya Sloboda on the bank of Lake Pleshcheyevo. The church already existed at the beginning of the 17th century. In 1652, at this church, another church was built and consecrated in honor of the cover of the Most Holy Theotokos. In 1755, instead of these two wooden churches, a stone church was built at the expense of the Moscow merchants Maxim and Ivan Schelyagins, which now exists. There are two thrones in it: in the cold in honor of the Forty Sebastian martyrs, and in the chapel warm in honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos.
Nikitinsky monastery

Nikitinsky monastery

Nikitsky Monastery is a male monastery of the Pereslavl Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, located on the northern outskirts of the city of Pereslavl-Zalessky on the shore of Lake Pleshcheyevo. One of the oldest monasteries of Russia. Dedicated to St. Nikita: here his relics rest and his chains are preserved.
Feodorovsky monastery

Feodorovsky monastery

The Feodorovsky Monastery is a convent of the Pereslavl Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church in Pereslavl-Zalessky. The monastery was laid in memory of the battle happened in 1304 between the troops of the Moscow Prince Yuri Danilovich and the Prince of Tver Mikhail Yaroslavich. The monastery marks the place of the Russian victory over the Russians - the tragic moment in the history of Russia. In the monastery — 20 nuns.
Church of the Intercession

Church of the Intercession

The Church of the Intercession is an Orthodox church in the city of Pereslavl-Zalessky. Administratively refers to the Yaroslavl Diocese. The Church of the Intercession is the only city church that was not closed in the city during the Soviet era, and where the services were not interrupted, as well as the only church built in the style of “Moscow Baroque”.