The Bear Trail
The route will start from the walls of the Stolbov Merchants' house, where the Myshkin Tourist Information Center is located. It will pass by the main attractions and end at St. Nicholas Cathedral Square.
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1. Stolbov Merchants' House
00:37Audio guide: 1The Stolbov merchants' house is an example of merchant enterprise and cunning: merchant Ivan Stepanovich Stolbov "begged" the city Duma to sell him a small piece of land between the Volga River and Nikolsky Creek. And as soon as he took possession of this land, he immediately hired a team of diggers and diverted the streambed to the side, built a mansion consisting of two houses and as if these houses were connected by an underground passage.
2. Memorial cross-the place of the founding of the city of Myshkin
00:36Audio guide: 2The memorial cross "Myshkin's cradle" was erected at the very edge of the water on the cape. This memorial cross is called and it is installed on the site of the first ancient settlement. Do you understand what this is about?? The mice may have nothing to do with it!!! Since it was the first time that people settled here on the Cape, then the place could be called MySkin!
3. Monument to women home front workers during the Great Patriotic War
00:38Audio guide: Памятник женщине-труженице тылаDuring the Great Patriotic War, there were 3 enterprises of strategic importance in Myshkin: the Udarnik artel, the Path to Victory artel, and the 3rd Five-Year Plan artel. Women and children worked on them around the clock. Thousands of pairs of felt boots, camouflage coats, parachutes, gymnasts, hand grenade bags, and warm-up jackets went to the front, made with the love and warmth of Myshkin women.
4. Volzhskaya embankment
00:46Audio guide: НабережнаяAlthough it's hard to believe, the Myshkin people have been familiar with "airplanes" for more than 300 years. The word airplane originated on the Neva River in St. Petersburg in the time of Tsar Peter the Great. A "plane" was the name given to crossing from one shore to the other. This word stuck with us on the Volga. All crossings of the Volga River were called "airplanes". And the first passenger company on the Volga 170 years ago was called an airplane. Now you know that this word appeared on the water and only later "soared" into the sky.
5. Victory Memorial
00:50Audio guide: 6The Victory Memorial, erected in memory of fellow countrymen who died for their Homeland during the Great Patriotic War, is unique both in its ideological design, its artistic execution, and its scale: 40 authentic letters from the front of a soldier who died at Stalingrad, seven Myshkin soldiers who received the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union, a book In memory of "They died for their Homeland." And, of course, the majestic figure of a soldier, whom the Myshkinites affectionately call Alyosha, completes the composition.
6. Museum of "Living" Crafts
00:38Audio guide: 7More than 100 years ago, this building housed one of Russia's first sports clubs, Gladiator, founded by famous Zenit football players Pavel and Mikhail Butusov, our countrymen. And he played with them in the football team of the city (who do you think?!) - the famous writer Vitaly Bianchi! And now the building has a "new" life – folk craftsmen create here: potters and blacksmiths.
7. Estate of the merchant T.V. Chistov
Thanks to the owner of this estate, the millionaire merchant Timofey Chistov, Myshkin's name still sounds on Mount Athos in Greece. And here's why. In the middle of the 19th century, a cholera epidemic raged in Yaroslavl province. In order to escape from the scourge, Yaroslavl merchants, including T.V. Chistov, turned to the monks of the Ksenofontov monastery on Mount Athos with a request to pray for the salvation of the inhabitants of the Yaroslavl province. Apparently, these prayers were answered and the epidemic receded, but the Myshkinsky district did not suffer at all. In gratitude, the merchant Chistov cast a bell weighing 50 pounds with his own money and presented it to the monastery on Mount Athos. This bell still sounds today in the Church of St. George the Victorious in the Xenophon Monastery on Mount Athos.
8. Assumption Cathedral
00:50Audio guide: Успенский соборThe 3-D image (which has become familiar in modern life) appeared in the early Middle Ages and was used by our craftsmen. And it was called Grisaille. So, the artist Timofey Medvedev, painting the Assumption Cathedral in Myshkin, used this technique of voluminous writing. Columns, cornices, and balconies are painted on the walls inside the temple by the experienced hand of a serf artist. When viewed, they give the impression of a three-dimensional drawing that emphasizes the grandeur of the Cathedral.
9. CURRENT "Myshkin chambers"
On the land of Yaroslavl there is the most Mouse Tsar-grad! And it's a Mouse, because it's in a Mouse! Here you will get an appointment with the Mouse King, visit the World Mouse Management Center, visit the court Theater and the living menagerie. Keep heading for the "Myshkin Chambers". I promise, it will be honorable, interesting, exciting, mimic and DELICIOUS!
10. St. Nicholas Cathedral
00:36Audio guide: Никольский соборThe oldest stone cathedral in Myshkin had its own "warm floors and warm walls" more than 250 years ago. Craftsmen of that time built huge heating furnaces in the basements of the temple, from which warm air was supplied to the cathedral through clay pipes. Even now, you can visit these basements and hear many interesting stories about their secrets.
