Tutaev
The town Tutaev is interested its special nature. The landscape is characterized by sheer Volga banks, the territory of the town is cut through with ravines, down which numerous springs roll, and above hipped belfries of five-domed temples are seen. This place also attracts numerous fishermen. And not by chance here in 15 century a fishing settlement was founded. According to the legend it arose here by initiative of local monks and the first settlers, who run here escaping from Tatar. In 18 century this settlement with Yamskaya one, bordering upon it, was joined city Romanov, located on the left bank of the Volga. This placed was called Borisoglebsk. In 1822 these two chief towns of a uyezd were consolidated into one – Romanov-Borisoglebsk, and in 1918 it was renamed into Tutaev in honor of Red Army men I. Tutaev, lost during Jaroslav rebellion of 1918.
There is no a bridge in Tutaev, which would join two parts of the town, in stead of bridge people use a ferry – boat. The main sights and reserved places of Tutaev are located on the Romanovskaya side and represent themselves the unique monuments of architecture and history.
The largest architectural monument to Tutaev stands in the main square. This is the Voskresenskiy cathedral. Formerly in its place a church, consecrated in honor of Saint Boris and Gleb, was located. Soon it was changed into stone church, however in the middle of 17 century it began destroying. The reason of it was heavy hipped roof. Then Rostov metropolitan charged local peasants with working out new hipped roofs, and together with them building an upper church. Thus the new church was erected in place of the old one. The temple was consecrated in honor of Christ’s Resurrection and took the place of the parish churches, in appearance plain and small, from which almost all utensils was transferred in the new erection. The complex of the cathedral consists of the temple, the gallery with two non-central porches, hipped belfry and wall with the Sacred gate. By the way, some elements of the last one were used in building of the temples in Jaroslavl, and, in particular, in building the temples in Korovnitskaya and Tolchkovskaya settlements.
The interior of the temple practically has no free space: here a chain of smart window casings, jambs and lintels of the windows are changed by a tile bent, which follows by painted iconostasis, arched columns, decorated with gilt frescos and semi-columns between windows, gathering in bundle, resemble women beads, magnificent vases in form of figures decorate every column. The fresco of the walls belongs to work of Gregory Plehanov’s pals. The fresco of the gallery, surrounding the temple, attracts attention. Here the scenes from life of Adam and Eva are pictured, and on its western part the scenes of the Flood and Biblical history, connected with name Noah were kept. Here one can see another interesting picture – artists tried to reconstitute the history of erection of the Tower of Babel. The exposition of the cathedral also includes ancient icons in splendid gilt iconostasis of the beginning of the 18th century. Here there are rarest wooden things – canopy, icon case, statue of Nicola Mozhaiskiy and others.
If going from the Voskresensky cathedral along Jaroslavskaya street, one can get to the Blagoveshchenskaya church. This erection is interesting for its five domes, as if arising from well-shaped row of kokoshniks.
In the interior of Pokrovskaya church are kept several interesting old icons and books, and also old frescos.
Krestovozdvizhenskiy cathedral was built with sided rings by Jaroslav architectures in 1658. The temple is remarkable for its quite interest frescos, which were pictured, probably, by Basil Zapokrovskiy artel.
It is considered, that some of them belong to Guriy Nikitin, who became the famous icon-painters afterwards.The frescos on the southern side of the temple were kept best of all, and the eastern and northern facades of the erection were left without decorations, because earthworks stretch up to them in ancient time.
The Preobrazhensko-Kazanskaya church, erected in 1758, became a wonderful addition to this temple. It is located near the wharf and was built for freight boats, having become so called fairway for ships. At the same time the building is “front access gates” for ships. The complex of the temple includes two churches and this explains double name of the erection. The Kazanskaya church is located a little lower than the Preobrazhenskaya one. The first of them keeps icon of Kazan Blessed virgin, especially revering in Romanov. The second church is interesting for spacious gallery, which one can ascend by high porch and from which the wonderful panorama of Romanov opens up.
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