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Landmark Attractions In Lesnoy Gorodok

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The Nativity of St. John the Baptist

Etnomir Tourist Complex

New Jerusalem Monastery of Resurrection

Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery

Lesnoy District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the thirty-six in Tver Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northeast of the oblast and borders with Pestovsky District of Novgorod Oblast in the north, Sandovsky District in the east, Maksatikhinsky District in the south, Udomelsky District in the southwest, and with Moshenskoy District of Novgorod Oblast in the northwest. The area of the district is 1,633 square kilometers . Its administrative center is the rural locality of Lesnoye. Population: 5,252 ; 6,833 ; 8,177 . The population of Lesnoye accounts for 31.7% of the district's total population.
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Landmark Attractions In Lesnoy Gorodok

1. The Nativity of St. John the Baptist Lesnoy Gorodok
2. Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery Zvenigorod
The Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery is a Russian Orthodox monastery dedicated to the feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos. It is the preeminent landmark of Zvenigorod, a town 48 km west of Moscow. In 1398, Prince Yuri of Zvenigorod asked Savva, or Sabbas, one of the first disciples of Sergius of Radonezh, to come to his capital city and set up a monastic abode on the Storozhi Holm . St. Savva of Storozhi was interred in the white stone cathedral of the Virgin's Nativity in 1407. This diminutive, roughly hewn church still stands, although its present-day exquisite look is the result of a 1970s restoration campaign. The frescoes in the altar date back to the 1420s, but the rest of the interior was painted in 1656. A magnificent iconostasis in five tiers and the Stroganov School royal doors ...
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