Vladimir – one of the oldest cities in Russia

Vladimir is a city with a population of about 350 thousand people located 188 km east of Moscow, the administrative center of the Vladimir region.

One of the largest tourist centers in the European part of Russia, Vladimir was the capital of the Grand Duchy of Vladimir in the 12th-14th centuries.

The Assumption Cathedral (pictured above) was the largest building in the framework of the grandiose construction that Andrey Bogolyubsky deployed in the new capital – Vladimir. It occupied the most advantageous point of the city – on the highest hill above Klyazma. Its golden dome was visible from distant approaches to Vladimir and as if asserted the independence of the Vladimir prince and his political claims for supremacy in feudal Russia

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