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Volokolamsk Kremlin
Volokolams or Volok Lamski means portage on river Lama, it used to be...
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View from belltower
Volokolamsk has a Kremlin on the top of the hill and this view from there
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Iosipfo-Volozk monastery
Iosiph(Joseph) of Volok was the man who founded this monastery in XVth c, and...
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Iosiph Volockiy
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Behind the Kremlin
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Gate-church
XVIIc
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Gates
Tiles are same as in XVIIc, work of Seraphim Polubes (Semibeast),...
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Alexandrov
Another town near Moscow, about 100 km on the north-east
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Alexandrova sloboda
Was the original name, inside the Kremlin
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View from the town
Ivan the IV, The Terrible, made this town his resedention.
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In the ansambly
According to legend Ivan'd kept his huge library here - still...
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Clock from the tower, no arrows!
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Ivan the IV (the terrible)
reconstruction by acadmic Gerasimov - based on the real remains of Ivan IV.
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Ivan's vaults
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Original fresco of XVIc
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Eastern Europe
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