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Yoshkar-Ola

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Atomcat Lounge Lizard Joined: 30 Jul 2004 Posts: 187	Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 9:36 pm    Post subject: Yoshkar-Ola Last edited by Atomcat on Fri Nov 05, 2004 3:06 am; edited 1 time in total
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Brent Lounge Lizard Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 91	Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 1:03 am    Post subject: There are daily overnight trains between Moscow & Yoshkar-Ola. There is a nice little history museum there, where I had a private tour with an english speaking guide. Other nearby cities are Kazan and Cheboksary. Kazan is much larger, and has a Kremlin with a mosque & cathedrals. Between Yoshkar-Ola and Kazan is an interesting monastery. Here is some more info: Quote: Raifa Monastery is one of the most beautiful sites in the Tatar republic. The monastery was founded in 1613. The ancient cloister is located on the shore of a beautiful lake and is surrounded by virgin forests. Here everyone can feel a unique atmosphere of solitude and quite reigning, which is due to the primeval silence and remoteness of the place. Anyone approaching the monastery can contemplate a wonderful harmony of the architectural ensemble. Crenellated walls and white stones, the Gate bell-tower looking info the sky, golden crosses on the green and sky-blue temple domes. The history of the monastery goes 300 years back. It was brutally plundered and then closed in 1928. In 1933 they organized a colony for juvenile delinquents. Later it became a technical school and temples and fraternity buildings housed workshops, a club and dinging room. The holly dwelling regained its function in the beginning of the '90s when its prior archimandrite Vsevolod took it upon himself to restore the monastery. 9 years later all the buildings were completely restores and repaired. In the middle of the monastery there is a magnificent Trinity Cathedral built in 1904-10. It is a wonderful example of ancient Russian architecture viewed from a modern perspective. One of the oldest monastery cathedrals is located beside the southern wall of the monastery behind the graveyard. Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Alexi II visited the monastery of Raifa in September of 1997. Every year of Epiphany (January 19) on the frozen lake there appears an ice-made city, one of Raifa's miracles. While in Raifa, it cannot escape you eye that there are some children there busily walking in black monk's cassocks, They are orphans living in the monastery. The first boy came here in 1994. Now there are 18 on them aged from 7 to 17.
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