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Big Village Walking Tour

1 h • walk

A large village is located on the banks of the Yukhot River in the very center of the Yaroslavl region. The first documentary mention of the village dates back to 1629.

A walk through the streets of the village will allow you to immerse yourself in the world of architecture and get acquainted with the unique architecture of Bolsheselsky houses, see different types of authentic carvings, thanks to which huts are presented as a real work of art.

You will be lucky enough to plunge into a special atmosphere that evokes the feeling of time travel, to get acquainted with the history of a Large Village of the 19th century.

In the Big Village there are 36 objects of the 19th century, most of them are historical and architectural monuments. You will walk along central Moskovskaya Street (now Chelyuskintsev), see an apartment building from the early 19th century with a small shop, admire the elegance of the milliner Shcherbakova's house, and see the almshouse built at the expense of a temporary merchant of the 2nd Guild of St. Petersburg, Bespaly, a native of Tupaytsevo, Bolsheselskaya volost, in 1896, look into the shop of merchant I. A. Kapranov and the tavern of merchant Subbotin, admire a real work of art – the house of a wealthy peasant Bagrov.

Pre-registration by phone: 8(48542)2-17-15

1. Bolsheselsky Museum (Center of Historical, Cultural and Artistic Heritage of the BIS)

The house of merchant Kapranov, built in 1890, is the subject of protection of a cultural heritage site of local importance.

The sightseeing tour of the village symbolically begins from the building in which the Museum of local lore is located

2. "Merchant's shop". An architectural monument of the late 19th century.

"Merchant's shop". An architectural monument of the late 19th century. The building is now privately owned and houses a pharmacy.

"Merchant's shop". An architectural monument of the late 19th century. The building is now privately owned and houses a pharmacy.

3. Administration of Bolsheselskoye rural settlement

"Glogzonov's House"

The Glogzonov House is a cultural heritage site built in 1874. The former tavern of merchant Subbotin. The merchants of Subbotina did not live in a large Village, but they kept an inn on the second floor, where they sold food and dishes, and a shop was located on the ground floor.

4. Konstantin Ivanovich Bagrov's House

The merchants of the Yukhotsky region had beautiful apartment buildings. The house of merchant Bagrov is a prime example of this.

Konstantin Ivanovich Bagrov's house is an architectural monument. At the moment, the house is not residential, it is in disrepair, but it has not lost its beauty.

5. District Court

The Chirkov House is a historical building known as the Chirkov House, built at the end of the 19th century. It is an architectural monument.

The cultural monument of the 19th century was built of red brick, in the manufacture of which its own clay was widely used. On the territory of the district there was a factory of Count Sheremetev, where they produced bricks with the trademark ZGSH.

6. I.Z. Surikov Children's Library

The House of Crimson Merchants

The wooden carved house of merchant Bagrov is the hallmark of a Large Village and an object of cultural heritage. It now houses a children's library and the editorial office of a local newspaper.

7. The "Good" store

Merchant Bagrov's trading store. Monument of architecture of the XIX century.

The building was originally built as a store and today it houses a retail outlet.

8. Shopping Malls

Shopping malls of Count Sheremetev.

The shopping malls were built by decree of Count Sheremetev and are an architectural monument of the 19th century. In the middle of the 19th century. The large Village was the largest shopping center of the Yaroslavl province.

9. The ensemble of the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul

The Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul was built in 1760. An architectural monument.

The Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul is located in the center of a Large Village, on a hill. It was built in 1760 on the left bank of the Yukhot River on the site of the wooden church of Zosima and Savvaty Solovetsky on the initiative of the local village head, peasant Polunin. The temple is active.

The main attraction of the Yaroslavl region is a constellation of 12 ancient cities: Yaroslavl, Gavrilov-Yam, Danilov, Lyubim, Myshkin, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Poshekhonye, Rostov the Great, Rybinsk, Tutaev, Uglich and the flooded Mologa. Each of them has its own unique appearance and atmosphere.