Walking in Suzdal

 
If you are planning independent travel in theGolden Ring of Russia or just a day trip on the weekend not far from Moscow, we recommend you individual and group walking sightseeing tours of Suzdal.Many tourists come to Suzdal from Moscow or Nizhny Novgorod for 1 day, however, to get a deeper ingight into the town, its museums and architecture, it is desirable to stay here for at least 2 days, for example, Saturday andSunday.
You will definitely have to visit our favorite place in Suzdal – the Kremlin. It is so majestic, and every time you stand next to it you feel some touch to the history. It is now a wasteland, and before that there was a small fortified place, which was the Kremlin - a small piece of epic history, where the city of Suzdal began. There are different versions of the origin of the city name, and it is very difficult to understand what the meaning of this word was. One explanation is that it is a non-Russian word, just like Moscow or Nerl’ (river near Suzdal). The names are Finno-Ugric, and the Finno-Ugric language vanished into Slavic.

You can see the Pokrovsky monastery and then go inside it, talk to the nuns. It used to be one of the richest monasteries in Russia, it was very difficult to take the veil there. One had to make a very rich contribution to become a nun of this monastery. First you can look around the Pokrovsky monastery inside, after that watch it from the site above the river – you can see it like the palm of your hand from there, and then climb up into the bell tower of the Rizopolozhensky monastery, listen to the bell ringing and have a bird’s-eye view of the whole city and the Vladimir-Suzdal Opole (plain) in all directions.

In the Museum of Old Wooden Architecture you can make sure that Suzdal is a festival town. The Museum is the main venue for all celebrations held in the city almost every week - Christmas, Shrovetide, Trinity Sunday, Cucumber Day, Town Day and many others. These days the Museum collects the best craftsmen from all over Russia, you can listen to their stories about their activity and purchase original works. At certain times you will hear the ancient epics in the performance of professional gusli (psaltery) players.

These are just some of the places you can meet on your walk in Suzdal. The Frolovs Family Art School offers a number of workshops to families with children aged over 3: folk dolls, wicker bast shoes, pottery, even tracing your own map of Suzdal on ancient paper - anything you can bring home from Suzdal as a keepsake.