Церкви и монастыри г. Серпухова / Churches and Monasteris of Serpukhov

Дореволюционная Россия на фотографиях
Церкви и монастыри г. Серпухова
Pre-revolutionary Russia in photographs
The Churches and Monasteries of Serpukhov

Музыка:
Молитва святителю Николаю
Свято-Троицкая Александро-Невская Лавра

Music:
Prayer to St. Nicholas
Sung here by the
Holy Trinity Alexander Nevsky Lavra

Serpukhov is a city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Oka and the Nara Rivers, 99 kilometers (62 mi) south from Moscow ..
Serpukhov was established in 1339 to protect the southern approaches to Moscow. Two years later it was made a seat of the powerful princedom ruled by a cousin and close associate of Dmitry Donskoy, Vladimir the Bold.
Town status was granted to it in 1374. The princedom continued until 1456, when the last prince escaped to Lithuania. The town frequently fell prey to the hordes of the Crimean Tatars,as a result the town was protected with a stone citadel, or kremlin, which was completed by 1556 as part of the Great Abatis Belt....

Видео Церкви и монастыри г. Серпухова / Churches and Monasteris of Serpukhov канала Nigel Fowler Sutton