The Alexeyevsky monastery

Near the Kremlin, to the south from it, in a Country street of the construction of the former Alexeyevsky man's monastery. It was based in 1371 monk Andrian under the instruction Moscow metropolitan Alexey and "permission" Dmitry Donsky. The place for a monastery was chosen on a height at the Yaroslavl road, and the monastery has become a defensive an advanced post on approaches to city. Initial construction and the walls, environmental them, were wooden. The first stone temple was erected in the beginning by(with) of the 16th century. During the Polish intervention the monastery was besieged and after a heroic defense was taken and burned, the buildings were destroyed, and the defenders, as a chronicles tells, were killed and killed up being alive.
In the 20-th years of the 17th century a restoration of the monastery began. In 1628 Uspenskaya church was built, which for extraordinary beauty has received the name "Divnya". This structure is a Worthy monument to Uglich citizens, ball in unequal fight with an enemy. The features of a temple are three slim hipped-roofs promptly leaving upwards. The hipped-roofs of "Divnya" church are not connected with the internal space and have only decorative meaning(importance). The reasonableness of the all construction, harmonious correlation of its parts and subjection to the uniform plan amazes. The central hipped-roof is slightly moved to west, that gives an especial picturesqueness to the church. The modest decoration of the hipped-roofs emphasizes theirs ease. The best view on the "Divnya" church is from the northeast. Before your eyes all structure completely opens. The fence with a gate, attaching to the church, concerns to the end of the 18th century. In the history of Russian architecture Uspenskaya church is one of the monuments finishing the period of the construction of hipped-roofs temples.

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