Museums, sightseeing

This five-tier construction towers of the Kremlin walls like a white monolith.

This church was built on the site of the old Church of the Holy Sign, which was erected for keeping the icon “Our Lady of the Sign” that protected Novgorod from an attack by a host from city of Suzdal in 1170.

According to a legend, the monastery was founded by St. Anthony from Rome who made a miraculous journey around Europe in three days and finally arrived to Novgorod on a floating stone.

Built in the south-eastern part of the Kremlin in the late 15th century, the church was erected replacing the stair tower of former gigantic Sts. Boris and Gleb Church.

The church was erected on a hill at the Volkhov River, close to the Middle-age rampart. Sunset’s dying glow reflects in the water and flames the church walls thus reviving the past time when the church was erected.

St. Parasceva was born in the 3rd century A.D. in a rich Roman family.

The two-tier miniature Church of St. Simeon the God-Receiver (1467) is located on the territory of the former 12th century Zverin cloister.

This remarkable monument of Novgorod architecture was built by a nobleman Simeon Andreevich. The building served as a model and inspiration for the next generations of architects.

The church got world-wide renown not only for its architectural merits, but also for the unique frescos of 1363.

The monastic church of the construction typical in the 14th c. The original look of the church and unique frescos of the 14th c. have been preserved till these days.

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Hours: 11am – 4pm daily except Thursday and Friday (April 1 – September 30). Location: village of Kovalyovo. To get here catch a bus 186 from the Central Bus Station.

This world famous church is the only extant building of the former small Nereditsky cloister, where there is the village of Nereditsa today.

Nowadays, the refectory church of the Holy Trinity (1557) and the church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit (1892) are the only buildings that have survived in the cloister.

According to the chronicles, the convent was established by the bishop Ioakim the Korsunianin in 998.

Located in the halls of the three tiers Gate Tower, the unique exhibition displays over 300 masterpieces of “artistic metal”.

The one of the most interesting exhibition of tiles is located in the annex to the old St. Nicholas Cathedral in Yaroslav’s Courtyard. Hours: 10am – 12am, 1pm – 6pm daily, except Mondays, Tuesdays and the last Friday of every month

This exposition of decorative and applied arts and of jeweller’s arts displays about 200 exhibits, made of precious metals, tin, porcelain, glass, wood and other materials by Russian, Byzantine and European craftsmen.

Woodcarving was one of the most popular artistic handicrafts in ancient Novgorod. Wooden items are both handy, and beautiful.

Implements, home utensils, handicraft items, military equipment, and birch-bark letters introduce ancient Russia. Hours: 10am - 6pm daily, except Tuesdays and the last Thursday of every month. Location: 4, Kremlin, Veliky Novgorod.

Being one of the world’s largest expositions of Russian icon painting, it displays about 260 marvellous works, including the two metres (six feet) high icon of Sts. Peter and Paul (11th c.).

The exposition helps to follow the history of Russian Arts of 18th - 20th cc.

The Marketplace and the Gate Tower for it were designed and built in the late 17th century by a stone mason Gury Vakhromeev.

It was decided to place the monument in Novgorod, thus pointing to Novgorod's key role in the foundation of the Russian State.

In a picturesque place washed by the waters of Lake Myachino and the Volkhov River, at St. George Monastery, replacing the former village of Vitoslavlitsy, there is the open-air museum of wooden architecture “Vitoslavlitsy”.

Not far from St. George Cathedral, right next to the source of the Volkhov River, is the place of an ancient settlement of Peryn.

As a fortified settlement of the Viking Age it has been located at the source of the Volkhov River right on the trade route “From the Varangians to the Greeks”. There was a residence of Rurik the Prince who started the first Russian ruling dynasty.

The Christian cult of St. Blaise ("Vlasiy" in Russian), the patron of cattle, is the evolution of the ancient pagan cult of god Volos or Veles. It is likely that in pre-Christian times the place where the church is today was the site of an idol of Volos.

Located at the source of the Volkhov River and Lake Ilmen, this functioning 12th century monastery is a part of a magnificent natural panorama.

Located 25 km away to the south-west from Veliky Novgorod, at the Veryazha River. Its history starts from the name of Michael Klopsky.

St Nicholas’ Cathedral is the oldest cathedral in Russia among those devoted to St. Nicholas.

According to the legend, in the 12th c. the icon healed Mstislav the Prince who later on ordered St. Nicholas Cathedral – the prince’s cathedral in Yaroslav’s Courtyard - to be built. The church sacred image is the first signed icon of St. Nicholas of Lipno by Aleksa Petrov (1294).

The marvellous architectural ensemble of the cloister is situated 12 kilometres (7 miles) north-west of Veliky Novgorod. Service hours: 7am and 5pm. Hours: at any time daily. Located in the village of Vyazhishchi. To get here from the Central Bus Station catch a bus 123.

The St. Sophia is one of the oldest stone buildings of Russia.

This convent was founded in the 12th century by St. Varlaam, one of the most hallowed saints in the North of Russia.

The museum includes expositions, exhibition halls, and museum monuments of Veliky Novgorod and towns of Novgorod region.
Tel.: +7 (816 2) 77 37 38, 77 37 70
museum@kremlin.natm.ru , www.novgorodmuseum.ru

The heart of Veliky Novgorod has always been the Kremlin, or Detinets, as they called it in old times.

The museum exhibits works by Novgorod artists of the late 20th - early 21st cc.

This is an ensemble of really valuable 12th – 17th century architectural monuments located on the right bank of the Volkhov River, right opposite the Kremlin.