What to see in Gorokhovets?
What to see in Gorokhovets?
Frontier town of Gorokhovets on the East of the Vladimir-Suzdal Principality arose in the XII century and the second half of the XVIII century became a district town of the Vladimir province.
What to see tourists coming in Gorokhovets? The editors of infogruppy “TURPROM” thanks for provided and whether the information filed by the Committee on tourism of administration of Vladimir region. After all, the old town contains a huge amount of ancient artifacts and iconic landmarks. So…
From the end of XVI century and XVII century in Gorokhovets there are three of the monastery. Men’s monastery, which later became the Znamensky women’s monastery, located on the left Bank of the Klyazma river. Sretensky monastery (ulitsa Sovetskaya, the house 5-7) was built by order of Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Nikon. Holy Trinity St. Nicholas monastery (street proletarian, 12) built by the decree of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov. Due to various decisions they are all in different time were closed or deprived of independence, but are now in the process of regeneration.
In this town, almost intact preserved a large variety of townspeople houses. Almost half of the stone houses of the seventeenth century, preserved in our country, belongs to Gorokhovets.
These houses are located at the following addresses:
- Lenin street, the house 9 – the house in Yershov (Sudoplatov) – the oldest stone house. Accurate written records of the period of the building of this house left.
- ulitsa Nagornaya, house 4 – Home Ershov (Sapozhnikov) – presumably built in the 1680-ies. It houses the exposition of the Gorokhovets Historical and architectural Museum.
- Sovetskaya street, house 5 – House Shiryaeva (Shumilova”. Description of 1760, there were 18 “chambers”.
- Naberezhnaya street, house 42 – House of Moscow, built in the late XVII century.
- Naberezhnaya street, house 44 – House Kanunnikova, built in the late XVII century.
- Gorokhovets was famous for its carpenters in the city, you can find unique samples of wooden architecture:
- country house of M. I. Shorina (Moscow street, building 43), similar to the fairy tower. Today it houses the House of folk arts and crafts;
- mansion Prishletsova (Lenin street, the house 38), was built in 1915;
- the house of the merchant I. P. Morozova (street of Lenin, 83),
- house Kuchina (Moskovskaya street, house 21).
In Gorokhovets, in addition to samples of the stone and wooden construction, there are natural and archaeological sites. This is Bald mountain and Puzhalova Gora. The settlement “Bald mountain” today has the status of an archaeological monument of Federal significance. And Pozhalovat opened mount Tremblant ski resort.
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