Three Pearls of Smolensk City’s Pre-Mongolian Architecture. Part 3.
The third monument of the XII century and another architectural pearl of the city of Smolensk is the Church of John the Evangelist. The...
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Three Pearls of Smolensk City’s Pre-Mongolian Architecture. Part 2
Another monument of Smolensk’s ancient religious architecture, which we visited on that day, was the church of Archangel Michael (The...
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Three Pearls of Smolensk City’s Pre-Mongolian Architecture. Part 1
So, our trip to Smolensk is over. It was in our plan, among other things, to visit three monuments of pre-Mongolian architecture of the...
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Smolensk Fortress (Russia)
Smolensk Fortress (often called the Smolensk Kremlin) is a defensive construction built in 1595-1602 under the rule of Tsar Fedor...
Read MoreSMOLENSK (Part three)
The war of 1812 caused a lot of damage to Smolensk. Alexander I, who arrived in Smolensk from Polotsk in the morning on July 9, announced...
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