The tour is a walk with a local resident who will tell the legends and legends passed down from generation to generation by Yaroslavl residents. You will walk through the historical center of Yaroslavl and find out how it happened that Alexander Dumas sailed to Yaroslavl, but did not come ashore, you will hear about a dwarf in love and a red commissar who dreams of forgiveness for insane shootings, about a boy who has been asking passersby for a piglet "for food" for a century and a half, about the Yaroslavl tradition of "fasting" .
Places to visit
1. Церковь Богоявления
The Church of the Epiphany was built in 1684-1693 at the expense and by order of a wealthy merchant, a member of the "living room hundred" Alexei Zubchaninov. This is one of the most beautiful churches in Yaroslavl, popularly known as the Yaroslavl Bride
2. Памятник основателю города — князю Ярославу Мудрому
Little is known about Yaroslavl until the beginning of the 13th century. However, there is a legend about the founding of the city, associated with the name of Prince Yaroslav of Rostov, whom historians later called the Wise.
3. Pastukhov's apartment house, 1848.
The Pastukhov House is one of the most interesting sights of Yaroslavl, the history of which is shrouded in a veil of secrets, legends and incredible facts. The building was built in 1848 at the expense of the Yaroslavl merchant and philanthropist Nikolai Petrovich Pastukhov. The three-storey building housed living quarters, wine cellars, shops, barbers, as well as a hotel, which the famous French writer Alexandre Dumas ranked among the best in Russia.
4. Gostiny Dvor
Gostiny Dvor is a monument of history and architecture of the early 19th century, built by the Yaroslavl provincial architect P. Ya. Pankov on the site of the market square. There are suggestions that Pankov consulted with Karl Rossi when designing the buildings, or that the author was Rossi himself, who was working in Tver province at the time.
5. Znamenskaya (Vlasyevskaya) tower
Vlasyevskaya (Znamenskaya) Tower is a former fortress tower in Yaroslavl, one of the three surviving towers of the Zemlyanoi City. The first name of the tower comes from the nearby ancient Vlasyevskaya Church, the second – from the Church of the Sign, attached to the tower from the east side in the middle of the XIX century. There are many historical facts and urban legends associated with the tower.
6. Часовня Александра Невского
The chapel on Yekaterininskaya Street (on the territory of the Mytny Market that existed here) was built in memory of the miraculous rescue of the family of Alexander III in a train wreck on October 17, 1888. In Soviet times, the chapel housed a Beekeeping store, a dry cleaning and dyeing workshop. In the late 70s, when the three-story building of the Yaroslavl regional party committee began to be built nearby, they were going to demolish the chapel altogether. However, Yaroslavl architects and city defenders managed to defend the monument.
7. The Stolby Hotel, 1887
There are many interesting stories to tell about the old hotels of old Yaroslavl. The main thing that unites them is that all Yaroslavl hotels were privately owned, each had its own diligent owner. There are many Maslenitsa traditions associated with the "Pillars" in Yaroslavl, as the best pancakes in the province were baked here.
8. The Russian State Academic Drama Theater named after Fedora Volkova
The first Russian professional theater, founded in 1750 in Yaroslavl. The theater is named after the founder, the merchant's son Fyodor Volkov.,
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