The Golden Ring of Russia is a tourist route that unites ancient cities of North-Eastern Russia: Vladimir, Ivanovo, Kostroma, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Rostov Veliky, Sergiev Posad, Suzdal, Uglich, and Yaroslavl. All of them have retained unique monuments of architecture, history and culture.
Pereslavl-Zalessky was founded by Prince Yuri Dolgoruky in 1152. The outstanding statesman and military leader Alexander Nevsky was born, lived and reigned here. In the early 14th century, the Duchy of Pereslavl became a part of the Grand Duchy of Moscow. Late in the 17th century, on the shore of Lake Pleshcheyevo near Pereslavl, young Tsar Peter I started construction of the so-called toy flotilla, which laid the foundation of the Russian military fleet.
Today, Pereslavl-Zalessky is the administrative center of the Pereslavl District, a tourist city of the Yaroslavl Region. It hosts a lot of ancient monasteries and churches: the Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Savior, the Trinity St. Daniel Monastery, the Goritsky Assumption Monastery, and a lot of unique museums revealing the history of the city. The calling card of the ancient Russian city is the National Park Pleshcheevo Lake.
The postage stamp provides images of the Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Savior, the Fortuna boat of Peter the Great (objects of the Pereslavl Museum-Reserve), the monument to Alexander Nevsky (sculptor S. Orlov), the building of the LIT plant, the Church of the Forty Martyrs, the Chapel of Feodor Stratilat (the territory of the National Park Pleshcheevo Lake).
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