Sights of Pskov

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Sights of Pskov

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Pogankin wards
The construction of the building was carried out from 1671 to 1679. The
chambers were usually inhabited by boyars, merchants and princes,
because such housing was inaccessible to ordinary peasants. After the
order of Nicholas 2, it was handed over to archaeologists.

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Wards of orders
Это единственное из административных зданий Довмонтова
города, сохранившееся до наших дней. Оно было построено в
конце XVII века на замену уничтоженному в пожаре строению.
Внутри располагалось местное воеводское управление,
посольство, суд и подвал для колодников — заключенных.

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Menshikov Chambers
They were built in the XVII century by order of Semyon Menshikov, a
noble merchant. Subsequent extensions were built under his sons, but
all the work went to waste when in the XVIII century the city was
engulfed by a powerful fire that almost completely destroyed the
chambers. The heirs decided not to restore them and simply sold them.

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Монумент «Ледовое побоище»
On Lake Peipsi near Pskov, on April 5, 1242, Alexander Nevsky,
together with his squad, defeated the army of the Livonian
Order. In honor of this, in 1993, a monument to the great
commander and his squad was erected on Mount Sokolikha.
Historians claim that the monument stands exactly where the
Russian army once went to battle.

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St. John the Baptist Cathedral
It is impossible to say exactly when the temple was founded, but it is
known that this is one of the two cathedrals of Pskov, built before the
Mongol conquest. The story goes that when Prince Yaroslav
Vladimirovich of Pskov defected to the Germans in 1240, his wife
decided to devote herself to God and founded this cathedral, in which
she was later buried.