Khram Preobrazheniya Gospodnya I Pokhvaly Presvyatoy Bogoroditsy

Enjoyed the classical cathedral carol. Local street market for shopping and a calm place to relax.

Gold Circle town with historical connection to last son of Ivan the Terrible. Quiet small town living on tourism.

The main building of the Uglich Kremlin - the Transfiguration Cathedral - is distinguished by its clear monumentality of forms. It was erected by talented serf craftsmen headed by Grigory Fedorov in 1706 on the site of a dilapidated 15th century cathedral. The general composition goes back to the Yaroslavl churches of the 17th century, but some elements were brought from the "Naryshkin Baroque". The grandiose and solemn building is a multi-tiered carved iconostasis (1860). It closely repeats the forms of the "Naryshkin Baroque", but does not achieve their plasticity. Columns decreasing in tiers, braided by a curling vine, loosened cornices, friezes saturated with ornament make up the rich framing of icons. The strongest decorative effect is produced by the inclusion of the composition in the "painted" architecture. Before the viewer, the Renaissance colonnades receding into the distance and a protruding portico with a torn pediment open, in the gap of which the figure of Christ illuminated by light soars. An illusory breakthrough into depth and upward, repeated in the painting of the vault, takes the gaze outside the interior.

Excellent decoration.

The architectural ensemble of the temple is simply amazing. See the photo, there is nothing to add ...