Sunday, June 21, 2009

Golden Ring of Russia.


«Golden Ring of Russia» - about twenty cities of Central Russia, located on the north-east of Moscow, - the center of historical and architectural monuments of XII-XVIII centuries, a treasure of Russian culture.

In the Golden Ring is composed of the City of Moscow, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Kostroma, Yaroslavl, and Tver regions. But most important of these, eight cities - Sergiev Posad, Pereslavl, Rostov, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Ivanovo, Suzdal and Vladimir, the rest of the list is controversial. The author of the term - a writer Yuri Bychkov, created in 1967, the same series of essays for the newspaper "Soviet Russia".

In a series of articles about the Golden Ring, we will tell you about the most important cities of this route c detailed descriptions and stories about historical figures, events and legends.

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