As I already wrote, the choice of the place to which I was going to go ended in such a way that I went to the Yaroslavl region. The city of Rostov.
This is an old Russian city with a very rich history. The mention of this city dates back to 862. This is almost 300 years more than my city of Kostroma is known. The city of Rostov has a large architectural ensemble of the Kremlin. The Rostov Kremlin is the property of all Russia.
One of the most beloved comedies of Soviet cinema was filmed within the walls of this Kremlin. This film was based on the book of one very famous Russian writer and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov.
The city's coat of arms depicts a large beautiful deer with antlers.
You can get to the city of Rostov from Kostroma in 2 hours, and if you're lucky, even faster. Taking into account the fact that the road from Kostroma to Rostov is much better in terms of the quality of the surface than the roads in the Kostroma region, the choice of this direction is justified.
This is not the first time I have been to the city of Rostov. This is a wonderful place due to the fact that the white-stone Kremlin is located on the shore of a large lake. The lake is called Nero.
The lake is not deep, but large.
In addition to the walls and towers of the Rostov Kremlin, there are monasteries on the shore of the lake. These are very beautiful buildings. I looked at the walls and temples of these monasteries from the city ramparts.
By the way, the earthen ramparts are the city's first line of defense. A large earthen rampart on which there was a wooden palisade is a typical ancient fortress. If wooden walls disappear in history without a trace, then earthen ramparts remain for centuries.
You can still walk through them and understand how the ancient city was arranged.
If we talk about the architecture of the Rostov Kremlin, then it was formed over the centuries. The first monumental buildings are at the end of the fifteenth century. The main buildings of the Kremlin are from the seventeenth century.
This is a real medieval Russian city. And at the same time, the center of Russian Orthodoxy. Every time I visit Rostov, I feel the greatness of the Russian spirit.
