Belozersk

In the Middle Ages, Beloozero was the center of an independent principality, but after the death of Prince Belozero and his eldest son in the Battle of Kulikovo, the city and the entire principality gradually came under Moscow's control, and in 1485, the Moscow Grand Duke Ivan III became the final ruler of the region. He strengthens Beloozero and builds a powerful wooden kremlin in it on high earthen ramparts surrounded by a moat with water.

The name of Belozersk speaks for itself — the city stands on the shore of a White lake, and the white color of the reservoir is given by the fine clay covering the bottom.

In the Museum of local lore, you can study the layout of the Belozersky Kremlin. This is what the Kremlin looked like in the time of Ivan III after the inclusion of Beloozer in the last quarter of the 15th century as part of the Moscow Principality. Later, wooden temples were replaced with stone ones. The Belozersk fortress was repeatedly restored and repaired, but in 1758 the dilapidated wooden walls and towers of the Kremlin were finally dismantled.

Although the wooden walls and towers of the Belozersky Kremlin have not survived to the present day, the Kremlin earthworks with a height of 15 m and about one kilometer in perimeter have been perfectly preserved. This is the main and most interesting attraction of Belozersk.

Inside the ring of shafts is the main temple of the city — the Transfiguration Cathedral, which was built in stone in 1668-1678 instead of the wooden church of the same name. The cathedral is strict and stingy on decorations in a northern way and is very similar to the oldest stone temple in Belozersk - the Assumption Church.