History of Pereslavl-Zalessky

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Pereslavl-Zalessky is an ancient town and it has a long history. Here you can read some facts.

1152
The town was founded by Prince Yury Dolgoruky. The building of the Cathedral of Transfiguration of the Saviour (the most ancient surviving monument of all Central Russia) was begun in that year.
1179
The town became the capital of Pereslavl County. The first Prince of Pereslavl County was Vsevolod the Big Nest (he had eight sons and four daughters in his family). In XII century the masterpiece of the ancient Russian literature "The Word of Daniel Zatochnik" was written here.
1194
Wooden walls were built on Pereslavl ramparts.
1220
Russian Prince Alexander Nevsky (1220-1263) was born in Pereslavl-Zalessky. The church of St. Alexander Nevsky is situated in Krasnaya Square not far from the Cathedral of Transfiguration of the Saviour.
1408
The town was taken and ruined by the Mongolians.
1608
The Polish-Lithuanian interventionists took Pereslavl. In the following year an army commanded by Skopin-Shuisky drove them out of the town.
1612
People of Pereslavl joined the militia under Minin and Pozharsky and took part in the liberation of Moscow.
1688
Tsar Peter the Great began building boats and galleys on Lake Plechsheyevo.
1692
In August the first Russian millitary ships were exhibited. This is the date of the foundation of Russian Navy (other Russian cities, such as Voronezh, seem to have a different opinion about this).
1744
Pereslavl eparchy was established. Goritsky Monastery was the centre of it.
1783
The town was on fire and all the ships built by Peter the Great were lost except one. It was the boat "Fortune". Now we call it "Peter's Boat" ("botik" in Russian, this is where the name of the server botik.ru comes from). At present the boat is kept in the local museum, established in 1803.
1894
V.I. Lenin worked in the village Gorki of Pereslavl-Zalessky District.
1913
Russian Tsar Nicolai II visited the town. 300 years of the Romanov Dinasty was celebrated here.
1919
The History and Art Museum of Pereslavl was established in the Goritsky monastery. It possesses a number of masterpieces of ancient Russian art.


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4 September 1995, luba@botik.ru
Last edited by S.Duzhin on 22-Apr-2001.