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Astrakhan Kremlin: Assumption and Trinity Cathedrals, Bishop’s House and Museum Exhibitions

Museums and Exhibitions • Other places

The Astrakhan Kremlin rises on the left bank of the Volga. It was built on a picturesque hill in the late XVI — early XVII century. A powerful fortress with four blind and three gate towers was built to defend the southeastern borders of Russia. You can enter the Kremlin area through the Prechistinsky Gate of the grandiose gateway bell tower, built in 1910 in the Old Russian style.

In the territory of the Astrakhan Kremlin visitors are welcomed by a five-domed Assumption (Uspensky) Cathedral. It appeared in the territory of the Kremlin in the early XVIII century. Here there is also the ancient Trinity Cathedral of the late 16th century, which had survived fires and times of desolation and was restored in the 70s of the 20th century. Not far from the Assumption Cathedral there is the Bishop’s metochion, where you can see the Bishop’s House with a chapel and living quarters. In the Kremlin you can visit expositions devoted to certain epochs of the history of the city and the country, walk along the fortress wall and view the whole territory through the window of an electromobile, simultaneously listening to the fascinating excursion on the way.

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