The Ryazan Kremlin is the best place to start getting to know Ryazan. On the “Kremlin route” you can see one of the largest Orthodox churches in Russia; find out where, legend has it, the great Prince Oleg of Ryazan hid his sword, which square in the city was called “Red,” and how the Diveevo convent is connected with the Ryazan Kremlin; take a photo at the city's most “iconic” selfie spot; and sip fragrant cardamom coffee like the one served on the biblical Via Dolorosa in the Old City of Jerusalem.
The Ryazan Kremlin
📜 Historic site · 🏟️ Architectural landmark
Kremlin Square Garden
🌿 Public garden or park · ⛲ Square
Monument to St. Sergius of Radonezh
🗿 Monument · 🗿 Sculptures
Church of the Prophet Elijah
🕍 Place of worship · 📜 Historic site
Glebovsky Bridge
🌉 Bridge · 📜 Historic site
Cathedral Bell Tower
🏟️ Architectural landmark · 📜 Historic site
Dormition Cathedral
🕍 Place of worship · 🏟️ Architectural landmark · 📜 Historic site
Oleg's Palace
🏟️ Architectural landmark · 📜 Historic site
Church of the Nativity of Christ
🕍 Place of worship · 🏟️ Architectural landmark · 📜 Historic site
Church of the Holy Spirit
🕍 Place of worship · 📜 Historic site
Kremlin Rampart
📜 Historic site · 🔭 Viewpoint
“Island of Broken Dreams”
🕵️ Urban legend
Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior
🕍 Place of worship · 📜 Historic site · 🏟️ Architectural landmark
Monument to Yesenin
🗿 Monument
Point 4
🕍 Place of worship • 📜 Historic site
The Church of the Prophet Elijah, built in 1679 by the serf architect Yakov Bukhvostov (more about him a little later), had a bell tower, several side chapels, extensive annexes, and a stone fence with cast-iron railings. Its most revered icon was that of the Mother of God “Hodegetria of Smolensk.”
In the mid-18th century one of the parishioners of the Church of St. Elijah was Agafya Melgunova, a noblewoman and wealthy landowner who lived nearby in one of the posads (townsmen's quarters). She went down in the history of Orthodox Russia as St. Alexandra, founder of the Diveevo convent.
Services were held here until November 1929, and then the church was closed. You could guess the purpose of each new institution from the bas-reliefs on the portico. In the 1950s it housed a lecture hall of the Znanie (Knowledge) society, with profiles of the founders of Marxism-Leninism. In the 1990s the bas-reliefs were replaced with a composition of the silhouettes of Adam and Eve: a wedding palace was planned here, but it never happened. Only in 2000 was the church reconsecrated. Today it also houses the Ryazan diocesan administration.
Point on route “The Ryazan Kremlin”
Point 4
🕍 Place of worship • 📜 Historic site
The Church of the Prophet Elijah, built in 1679 by the serf architect Yakov Bukhvostov (more about him a little later), had a bell tower, several side chapels, extensive annexes, and a stone fence with cast-iron railings. Its most revered icon was that of the Mother of God “Hodegetria of Smolensk.”
In the mid-18th century one of the parishioners of the Church of St. Elijah was Agafya Melgunova, a noblewoman and wealthy landowner who lived nearby in one of the posads (townsmen's quarters). She went down in the history of Orthodox Russia as St. Alexandra, founder of the Diveevo convent.
Services were held here until November 1929, and then the church was closed. You could guess the purpose of each new institution from the bas-reliefs on the portico. In the 1950s it housed a lecture hall of the Znanie (Knowledge) society, with profiles of the founders of Marxism-Leninism. In the 1990s the bas-reliefs were replaced with a composition of the silhouettes of Adam and Eve: a wedding palace was planned here, but it never happened. Only in 2000 was the church reconsecrated. Today it also houses the Ryazan diocesan administration.
14 points
5 km
4.5 hours
