Church of the Transfiguration on the Yar

The Church of the Transfiguration of the Saviour on the Yar stands at the edge of a bluff above the floodplain of the Trubezh, a few hundred metres from the Ryazan kremlin. The stone church replaced a wooden one in 1695 and is kept in the spirit of the late Moscow ornamental style. Five heads on slender drums and a separate bell tower under a tented roof are visible from the meadows across the river several kilometres away. A monument to Sergei Yesenin by Alexander Kibalnikov, unveiled in 1975, stands beside it: the poet seems to step out of the ground with his arms flung wide. Together the church and the monument make one of the most photographed spots in the city.

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