Around Moscow

Nikolo-Ugreshsky Monastery is a Russian Orthodox monastery named after St. Nicholas the Miracle-Worker. The monastery located in a suburb of Moscow formerly known as Ugreshi and now called Dzerzhinsky. The monastery is known to have existed as early as 1521. The old main church of St. Nicholas was built in the 16th century. A legend attributes its foundation to Dmitry Donskoy, the Prince of Moscow from 1359 to  1389. O n his way to the Kulikovo Field, is supposed to have made a stay there and determined to give a decisive battle to the Tatars after seeing an image of St. Nicholas in a pious dream. He "is reputed to have called out in ecstasy ugresha ("this sets my heart aflame") and founded a monastery on the very spot". The main church of the monastery was built to a Russian-Byzantine design by Alexander Kaminsky between 1880 and 1894. It is one of the largest churches in the Moscow region. After the Russian Revolution, the monastery was closed and was giv

This year’s Times and Epochs festival is dedicated to Antiquity, the period that lasted for one thousand years, from 5 B.C to 5 A.D. This period was marked by a multitude of dramatic events in the political, military and economic history. The culture of Ancient Rome became a symbol of Classical Antiquity, absorbing the traditions of the Greeks and through them the traditions of the Etruscans. The guests visited the main thematic areas such as Roman military camp and adjoining park with siege equipment, the Bosporan Kingdom – an interesting mixture of Greek poleis (city-states) and Scythian camps, village of the Celts, the German burg – a fortified town of tribes that did not surrender to the power of the Romans, Judea and Palestine — an intersection of Western and Eastern civilizations, at which arose. More photos in my Google Photo album Times and Epochs. Ancient Rome