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Murom

 

One of the oldest Russian cities, first mentioned in 862 AD. Nowadays its a medium-size town in Vladimir oblast with no particular antiques.

 

The Temple of saints Cosmas and Damian (1555) is the oldest surviving building.

 

Half of the territory of the Transfiguration monastery is occupied by a vegetable garden.

 

There is a mini-zoo with exotic breeds of chickens.

 

Turkeys.

 

And guineafowl.

 

This mini-zoo brought the monastery notoriety at the end of 2021. Then a dead donkey was discovered on the road near Murom. He was identified as Moses the Donkey, who lived in the Transfiguration Monastery. The monks were accused of leaving him in the cold to die. The monks began to make excuses, saying that the donkey himself died of old age, they took him to the landfill to bury him, but the lorry broke down, so the corpse was temporarily left on the side of the road to be transported later by another truck. They published a video with proof, but animal rights activists argued that the video showed that the donkey was still alive when they put it in the lorry. After this story, the monks here do not keep large animals, only birds.

 

There is also a chapel with the ossuary. It can't be comapred with the Seldec in Czech Republic or with Parisian catacombs though.

 

Overall, a nice place, worth a visit.

 

A Trinity Convent.

 

There are noticeable attempts at improvement on the embankment, but the road to the St. Nicholas Embankment Church (1717) still looks pretty much as if we were in a village.

 

A Barbie stop.

 

A cat.

 

Various houses.

 

 

Getting there (as of September 2023): take M-12 tallway from Moscow, the trip by car will take about 3 hours. There are also trains from Kazansky railway terminal, but the trip will take up to 5 hours.

Where to eat: the Xlovelli restaurant on Moskovskaya street, but the service might be slow.

 

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