Museum at St Sophia's Cathedral

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St Sophia's Cathedral (kiev)

The town's earliest and largest cathedral is one of the Kremlin's landmarks.It has a beautiful golden helmet dome. Inside is a well-preserved iconostatis, one of the oldest in Russia. It includes works from the eleventh to seventeenth century.

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Museum of History, Architecture and Art

The museum owes a fine collection of icons of the Novgorod Art School along with other precious pieces of art.

St Nicolas' Cathedral (Nikolskiy sobor)

Built in 1113, the Byzantine style was a significant change to St Sophia's.

Museum of Wooden Architecture

Situated in the complex of the Yuryev Monastery, where you can also find the majestic Cathedral of St George, the museum hosts a collection of timber constructions from the surrounding area.

Kremlin

the impressive walls of the Kremlin date back from the 15th century. They formed the inner ring of a series of fortifications. Inside there were once 18 churches and 150 houses.