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The gallery houses a private Art collection, "Traveling Frogs from Moscow," which includes 1,500 frog exhibits (women's jewelry, jewelry boxes, Christmas tree toys, figurines, figurines made of ornamental stones, soft toys, etc.). The studio "School of wood painting" has been created at the gallery, specializing in "Tumanovskaya painting".
The Saint George Cathedral dating back to the 13th century is an architectural masterpiece of Vladimir-Suzdal Rus. The ornamentation and decoration of its facades strike the imagination. The cathedral is covered with white stone carvings all over from its bottom to the dome. Biblical scenes and mythical beings, beautiful sirin birds, smiling lions with their tongues put out, centaurs and dragons coexist peacefully here. All this diversity of human and animal figures is entwined with by floral ornamentation in form of a patterned carpet. The indoor premises of the cathedral include a small collection of carved white stones, and the principal and most well-known of them is the Svyatoslav's Cross. It is mentioned on the stone located to the right of the crucifix. The stone says, 'This life-giving cross was made by Prince Svyatoslav in the summer of 1224'.
The Posadsky House is the only preserved monument of residential stone architecture in Suzdal.
The Convent is located five minutes from the city centre. It was founded at the turn of the 12th and 13th centuries by Prince Vsevolod the Big Nest at the insistence of his wife, Princess Maria Shvarnovna.
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