2013-05-26: Kirillov School
Our first stop was at the Kirillov School where we got to visit classrooms as well as watch this local teen show her skills at making lace.
2013-05-26: A Song or Two
This young man played his accordian for us.
2013-05-26: Kirillov Belozersky Monastery
The Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery, also known as The Monastery of St. Cyril of the White Lake, is one of the largest and best preserved medieval abbeys in Russia.
2013-05-26: Assumption Cathedral
The complex contains eleven churches with the largest cluster surrounding the Assumption Cathedral built in 1497. At that time the Cathedral was the largest monastery church in Russia.
2013-05-26: Frescos
As in many of the places we visited, here we saw incredibly colorful frescos that told a story.
2013-05-26: St. Euphimius Church
St. Euphimius is one of the eleven churches at the Kirillov Belozersky Monastery.
2013-05-26: Monks Cells
The wooden churches and walls built at the original location were replaced over succeeding centuries by impressive stone and masonary structures. The present day fortress walls, about 1.6 miles long and enclosing about 30 acres, were constructed in the mid 17th century incorporating earlier defenses which helped repel the Polish Invasion of 1612. At that time these monks cells were occupied but...
2013-05-26: St. John's Monastery
...since 1998, monks were readmitted to a portion of the complex known as the small Ivanov (St John's) Monastery.