Cruises from Uglich
Uglich is a historic town in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, on the Volga River with a population of 40,000. It was founded in 937, overun in 1238 by decendants of Genghis Khan and acquired by the Moscow Prince Ivan Kalita in 1328. But the city is best known for dark matter ... the assassination of 10 year old Tsarevich Dimitri. The youngest son and last heir of Ivan the Terrible, Dmitry was murdered here in 1591, the result of a power struggle.
Read moreThe Romanov tsars decided to canonize the martyred tsarevich and to turn Uglich into a place of pilgrimage. On the spot where Dimitriy had been murdered they built the small but lovely Church of St Demetrios on the Blood, which appears on the horizon with its red walls and blue domes as one sails north on the Volga. The palace where the prince lived was turned into a museum. The city centre features other nice samples of old Russian architecture including the Kremlin cathedral the Alexeievsky and Resurrection monasteries.
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