The wonderful Russian city of Kostroma, spreading on both the banks of the Volga, is part of the famous Golden Ring of Russia. His founder was the Grand Prince Yuri Dolgoruky and the city was built in general as an outpost to protect the Northeast Rus. For a long time, the city did not play any special role in the life of the state, while in the seventeenth century did not come the boyars called Mikhail Romanov to the kingdom. Since then, the city of Kostroma gained fame as the Motherland of the Tsarist Dynasty, and the Ipatiev Monastery, in which the wedding took place to the kingdom of Mikhail as "the cradle of the Romanov Dynasty".
The modern Kostroma is divided into three districts, but for tourists, of course, the central - historical district is of particular interest. It can be said that the layout of this old part of the city, as well as the Kostroma architecture is a brilliant example of Russian urban planning. The most vivid example is an example of a trading row ensemble, built in the seventeenth century, which has been preserved to our time almost in priority.
Many tourists who came to Kostroma usually admires Ostrovsky's gazebo on the embankment of the city. It is of course looks very beautiful. In fact, the Ostrovsky never happened in it, especially since it was built in 1956. But the gazebo is undoubtedly a symbol of Kostroma, and she became famous thanks to the film "Cruel Romance", shot in Kostroma on the play A.N. Ostrovsky "Nonmennica".
In Kostroma, there are a lot of acting monasteries and churches, but the most interest among travelers usually causes an Orthodox male Ipatiev monastery, which can be called a masterpiece of Orthodox Russian culture with full right. It is just at the place where the river Kostroma flows into the Great Russian River Volga. The monastery was founded back in the thirteenth century, and in 1613 it was in him that Mikhail Romanova was elected to the Russian throne.
One of the recognizable symbols of Kostroma is certainly considered a fire calant, which is a monument of architecture of the era of classicism. You can easily find this calanch on the Susaninskaya Square of the city. Noteworthy is the fact that initially the calans was built not only to perform its main functions, but also to please human views.
Literally in the center of Kostroma, you will find a very elegant old building, in which the urban gaptweath was once located. Built in the early nineteenth century, it is characterized by a rich stucco decor in the sophisticated ampir style. Today in this building is located the Military Historical Museum of Kostroma.
It is also worth looking into a very cozy urban museum "Noble Assembly" of the city of Kostroma. The museum's creators were very tried and invested a lot of strength so that the museum would not turn into dry stands with information, but in a living historical allowance, telling about the former times of Kostroma. You will see accommodation with furniture, books and a natural setting. In general, this is not a museum, and the present noble assembly.
All tourists who come to Kostroma are definitely trying to visit an amazingly beautiful Emastanian-Anastasian Women's Monastery. He not only attracts with its beauty and antiquity, but also the fact that it is kept by the miraculous icon of the Fedorovsky Mother of God.