KOSTROMA. Maternal town of Russian Tzar family
Kostroma is 340 km to the northeast of Moscow. This is a one of the oldest russian town. It was founded by russian count Yuriy Dolgorukiy in 1152 (this person also founded Moscow in 1147). 460 years later Kostroma was a place of a birth of a last russian tzar family Romanov. There is Romanov museum right in a center of town.
Museum was founded in 1913 in honour of 300 years of Romanov Royal house. This is a house in old-fashioned russian style. It is located among nice stone houses, theatre and church in russian traditional style.
Houses are located on Mira avenue. Street leads to a center. There are Gostiny Dvor (house for merchants like trading center) - and Fire station with tower to watch the fire.
There is monument in honour of Ivan Susanin. This is russian hero of Polish intervence. 1613 is a last year of russian Vague Time. Poland tryed to take power in Russia. Polish army tryed to find russian Tzar and killed him. Ivan Susanin showed soldiers wrong way to Kostroma in forests and was killed. Today if you can not show right way russians like to say: "You are Susanin!"
Russian Tzar was located in Ipatiev monastery. In 1613 Mikhail Fyodorovich was crowded in monastery and became first russian Tzar of Romanov family. Mikhail Fyodorovich was a grandfather of first russian imperor Peter The Great.
Last house is a Romanov residence inside monastery. During soviet period monastery was closed, property was stolen by Bolsheviks. Monastery kellias became residential rooms for plant's workers, soldiers and orphans. From 1958 there was Kostroma Museum. It is ridiculous, but Romanov Tzar family was born in IPATIEV monastery in 1613 and was killed in IPATIEV house in Yekaterinburg in 1918. Now there is The Cathedral on the Blood in Yekaterinburg instead of destroyed in 1977 Ipatiev house.
PS. Useful information
You can take a train in Kostroma from Moscow (Yaroslavskiy station). You can buy tickets in internet: www.RZD.ru . Duration of journey is about 6 hours. Price of ticket is about 600 rub. Kostroma is located on old Transsiberian railway. Now majority of trains don't cross Kostroma as it was a century ago. But there are a lot of other trains. Kostroma and also Yaroslavl have good connection with other russian cities.
Museum was founded in 1913 in honour of 300 years of Romanov Royal house. This is a house in old-fashioned russian style. It is located among nice stone houses, theatre and church in russian traditional style.
Houses are located on Mira avenue. Street leads to a center. There are Gostiny Dvor (house for merchants like trading center) - and Fire station with tower to watch the fire.
There is monument in honour of Ivan Susanin. This is russian hero of Polish intervence. 1613 is a last year of russian Vague Time. Poland tryed to take power in Russia. Polish army tryed to find russian Tzar and killed him. Ivan Susanin showed soldiers wrong way to Kostroma in forests and was killed. Today if you can not show right way russians like to say: "You are Susanin!"
Russian Tzar was located in Ipatiev monastery. In 1613 Mikhail Fyodorovich was crowded in monastery and became first russian Tzar of Romanov family. Mikhail Fyodorovich was a grandfather of first russian imperor Peter The Great.
Last house is a Romanov residence inside monastery. During soviet period monastery was closed, property was stolen by Bolsheviks. Monastery kellias became residential rooms for plant's workers, soldiers and orphans. From 1958 there was Kostroma Museum. It is ridiculous, but Romanov Tzar family was born in IPATIEV monastery in 1613 and was killed in IPATIEV house in Yekaterinburg in 1918. Now there is The Cathedral on the Blood in Yekaterinburg instead of destroyed in 1977 Ipatiev house.
PS. Useful information
You can take a train in Kostroma from Moscow (Yaroslavskiy station). You can buy tickets in internet: www.RZD.ru . Duration of journey is about 6 hours. Price of ticket is about 600 rub. Kostroma is located on old Transsiberian railway. Now majority of trains don't cross Kostroma as it was a century ago. But there are a lot of other trains. Kostroma and also Yaroslavl have good connection with other russian cities.