Vologda Kremlin (Bishops yard ) (Vologda)

 museum, churchyard, interesting place

In fact, it is fenced with stone walls former Bishops yard - a complex of buildings yard archbishops of Vologda. This Vologda Kremlin, Ivan the Terrible built the river was limited Vologdoy, Zolotuhoy and defensive structures along of modern streets Oktyabrskaya and Leningradskaya.

The first wooden buildings appeared in 60 years XVI century. At the end of 1650 in the House of Bishops of the first stone building - building Kazennyi order, or Ekonomsky corpus, which put state and treasury cells. In 1669 - 1671 years was built Simonovsky corpus (or the House of Bishops) house with the birth of Christ Church - one of the most remarkable buildings of that time. The stone wall appeared in 1671 - 1675 years. A particularly intensive construction in the territory of the current Kremlin, that is, in the House of Bishops were in the 60-70 - s of the XVIII century in Vologda Bishop Joseph Gold, was built when Iosifivsky building - one of the first buildings in the Baroque style.

Currently, most of the former residence of UOC, almost all the facilities of its main central courtyard used History Museum.

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