Pereslavl-Zalessky

This album from the Museum Cities series introduces the reader to the ancient Russian town of Pereslavl-Zalessky. In the 12th-14th centuries Pereslavl was the seat of an appanage principality which lay on the road from Novgorod to Vladimir and Suzdal. One of its princes was the famous Alexander Nevsky. The town remembers the time of oprichniks – the all-powerful lifeguards of Tsar Ivan the Terrible. Here the young Tsar Peter the Great built the first ship of the Russian Navy and had them tested on Pleshcheyevo Lake. The album tells of the town’s history and architecture. It describes the exposition of the Pereslavl Museum: paintings, frescoes and works of applied art.