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Saviour Monastery of St Euthymius, Suzdal
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CONVENT
INTERCESSION CONVENT
It's one of the classic Suzdal pictures - whitewashed beauty surrounded by green meadows
on the banks of the lazily meandering river. Inside it's all flowers. The nuns, who live in
wooden cottages left over from a rustic hotel that once existed in the premises, seem to be
quite obsessed with floriculture. This convent was founded in 1364, originally as a place of
exile for the unwanted wives of tsars.
MUSEUM
MUSEUM OF WOODEN ARCHITECTURE & PEASANT LIFE
9am-7pm
Thu-Tue May-Oct, to 4pm Nov-Apr)
This open-air museum illustrating old peasant life in this region of Russia is a short walk
across the river, south of the Kremlin. Besides log houses, windmills, a barn and lots of
EATING & DRINKING
Most hotels also have restaurants.
RUSSIAN
CHAYNAYA
10am-9pm)
It is hidden inside a kitschy crafts market, but this place is a gem. Russian standards - bliny,
shchi
(cabbage soup), mushroom dishes and pickles - are prominently represented, but it is
the unusual (and rather experimental) items on the menu that make the place so special. Red
buckwheat pancakes anyone? Pickled apple stuffed with herring?
Or the ultimate treat - fried salted cucumber with pickled ashberry served on toast with
sour cream and horseradish paste? If you are with a group, order a
samovar
of tea, which
will be served with cream, sugar and donut-shaped
baranki
cookies.
RUSSIAN
KVASNAYA IZBA
