Sergiev Posad, part of the Golden Ring of Russia, is visited annually by over a million pilgrims and tourists. Experienced guides help to appreciate the greatness of the numerous historical monuments of Sergiev Posad land.
From anywhere in the ancient Russian city, located 70 km northeast of Moscow, a view of the golden domes of its main attraction, the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, opens up. The monastery, founded in the middle of the 14th century by the Monk Sergius of Radonezh, is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Within the walls of the monastery, Sergius of Radonezh blessed Prince Dmitry Ivanovich on a campaign against the Tatars. At the end of the 17th century, the great Tsar Peter left here as an autocratic ruler for Moscow. Well-known political and spiritual leaders of Russia are buried here.
On the territory of the Lavra lie the relics of St. Sergius of Radonezh, the ashes of Tsar Boris Godunov and the outstanding Russian icon painter Maxim the Greek. Here is the Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit, the Assumption Cathedral, a five-tiered bell tower topped with a cupola in the form of a golden bowl, and many other spiritual and civil buildings of the 18th-19th centuries.
You can learn a lot of interesting things by visiting the building of the former commercial school on the Volokushe mountain above the Kelarsky pond. The doors of an unusual toy museum are open here, the craft of which has been famous for Sergiev Posad for a long time. The museum, located at 123, Red Army Ave., was founded in 1918 and has a collection of over 3000 items. It is open from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm every day except Monday and Tuesday. You can get the necessary information by calling 8 (496) 540-4101.
Within the city, 3, 5 km from the Lavra, on the shore of the Korbushinsky pond, there is the Gethsemane Chernigov skete. The monastery, founded by Metropolitan Filaret in 1844, has a rich history and is open to the public. You can get to the place by taking 20 minutes by bus 38 from the Sergiev Posad station to the Povorot na Smenu stop.
The Gremyachiy Klyuch waterfall is located 15 km southeast of the city. According to legend, this unusual place was created thanks to the prayer of St. Sergius. The paths to the source are covered with decks, water is drained through wooden gutters, for the miraculous properties of which numerous tourists and pilgrims rush every day. You can visit this outlandish place by taking the 37th bus for half an hour from the Sergiev Posad station to the Shiltsy stop. Then, turning left, walk 5 km over the field.
More than a dozen hotels are open for guests and pilgrims within the city. You can study the location schemes, travel routes, familiarize yourself with the living conditions, find out contact phone numbers and addresses of web resources, or get other comprehensive information about the Sergiev Posad land, which is so generous with historical sights, on the CoolPool.ru website.
