Cathedral of the Transfiguration in Pereslavl-Zalessky

The Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Saviour stands on Krasnaya Square in Pereslavl-Zalessky and remains the oldest building in the town. The white-stone church was founded by Yuri Dolgoruky in 1152 and finished by his son Andrei Bogolyubsky about 1157. The walls are laid of hewn blocks of white stone almost without carving, and in its severity this is the sternest of the surviving monuments of pre-Mongol Rus. Alexander Nevsky, who was born in Pereslavl, was baptised in the cathedral, and the local appanage princes were buried here as well. A bust of Nevsky stands nearby, and the earthen ramparts of the twelfth-century town kremlin survive around the square.

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