Lake Plescheyevo

The Alexander’s Hill

Kleshin

The Wall Ring

The Red Square

Rostovskaya Str.

The Temerins’ Manor

Shalanin printing works

Narodnaya Square

Orphanage

The Boys’ Gymnasium

Colleges for Girls

Fire station

Pavlov Mansion House

The Prison Church

The Girls’ Gymnasium

The Varentsov Mansion

Orphanage

The Zhitnikov Mansion

The House of Dr. Schill

“Small Rooms”

Infection barrack

The Kardovsky House

Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Savior

Church of St. Peter the Metropolitan

Sobor of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God

Church of Alexander Nevskiy

Church of the Intercession

Church of the Forty Martyrs

Smolensko-Korniliyevskaya Church

Church of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Znamenskaya Church (The church of our Lady of the Sign)

Church of St. Simeon

Church of St. George

St. Nikita Monastery

St. Danila Monastery

St. Nicola Convent

The St. Theodore Convent

The Museum of History, Architecture and Fine-Arts

Museum–Estate “The Little Boat of Peter the Great”

The Pereslavl Arboretum

Museum of Flat Irons

The Museum of Kettles

The Museum of Steam Engines

   Old city streets surrounding the central road give specific charm to the city of Pereslavl. Based on the contemporaries’ accounts in the late 18th – first half of the 19th century, when the central street was built, Pereslavl prominently ranked as a number one industrial and trading district town of the Central Russia. There was a number of businesses, industries, hospitals with a developing infrastructure. The educational level was quite decent: at the end of the 19th century in a town with about 10 000 citizens there was a district school, a religious school, an elementary school for girls , three regular elementary schools and three parochial schools. The inhabitants constituted a mixture of gentry, intelligentsia, bourgeois, clergy, labor and paupers. The numerous ancient brick and wooden buildings and structures give a vivid flashback to the epoch. They make us think of the ancient city, reflect upon the customs and way of life of its inhabitants.

   The Wall Ring (See item 29 on the map). Pereslavl-Zalessky was founded in 1152 by Yuriy Dolgorukiy. The town spreads along two banks of the quiet Trubezh river near the Lake Plescheyevo. Following the central city road across the river even a person who is new in town can easily find their way to the Kremlin of Pereslavl — the ancient city walls. The wall ring, almost 2.5 kilometers long, was constructed in the middle of the 12th century and quite well preserved. The base of the city wall is made of three curbs of oaken and aspen cribwork in three separate rings. Throughout the first centuries of its existence the rampart reached 16 meters. Currently it is 6 meters in width and only 10–12 meters in height. In the medieval times the crest of the rampart served as the base for double wooden walls with 12 watch towers, their names corresponding to those of the Moscow Kremlin. In the past the northern part of the “fortress” was protected by a natural barrier — the Trubezh river, which almost reached the base of the rampart. From the south and the west the walls were protected by a man-made moat with sharp piles on the edge. The remains of the moat can be seen today from the wall ring.