Staraya Russa is a small metropolis of 32,000 inhabitants and it’s little recognized in Europe, even when the Russians had an excellent historic significance, because it was one of many first Russian epic facilities that started with the reign of Kiev. If not for this, it’s well-known amongst worldwide vacationers, for having been the summer season residence of Dostoevsky, who took it as a mannequin for the fictional city of Skotoprigonievsk, in his e book The Brothers Karamazov.
Cathedral of the Resurrection
Staraya Russa has a troubled historical past, having seen everywhere in the historical past, many battles. They had been of wonderful beginnings of the town to flee their properties from wooden to stone ones, because of industrial actions, the battles in opposition to the invading Vikings and Nazis, the decadence introduced by brigandage within the seventeenth, which led it nearly to vanish.
Museum of Dostoevsky
Regardless of every little thing, regardless of the destruction, one thing is preserved, akin to: many picket homes, together with the residence of Dostoevsky, a number of church buildings, and one thing issues had been misplaced ( because the thermal tub has been rebuilt).
Grushenka’s Home
Along with the odor of outdated Russia, and thermal waters, right here you possibly can go to the museum of Dostoevsky, Grushenka, the house of the Brothers Karamazov (clearly as a mannequin within the novel), the fountain Muravyovsky, constructed the place there’s a pure mineral spring of the Cathedral of the Resurrection, the Monastery of the Transfiguration
Muravyovsky Fountain
Spaso Preobrajensky mon (Monastery of the Transfiguration)
Dostoevsky’s Home
St-George
Though it’s not a giant metropolis, it may be difficult visited on foot, higher contemplate a taxi. You may get there by taking a single day by day connection by prepare from Moscow, extra frequent connections with buses departing from Novgorod, one each hour, for 2 hours of journey.
