Arkadievsky Monastery
Vyazma, ul. 11 Arkadievsky Monastery, known throughout the entire Smolensk region for its female choir, skillful needlewomen and diligent prayer books, has not reached the present day. By the end of the 20th century. he almost half lost his original appearance, retaining only a small fraction of the former splendor.
Vyazma Museum of Local History Museum
Vyazma, ul. 8 In 1992 at Vyazma Museum of History and Ethnography the exhibition hall was opened, intended for holding various temporary exhibitions: art, historical, everyday, ethnographic, local history and many others. The museum is located in an old building built in the early 20th century.
Vyazemsky Ioanno-Predtechensky Monastery
Vyazma, ul. Dokuchaeva, 48A Vyazemsky Ioanno-Predtechensky Monastery is located in a surprisingly clean, very cozy, almost idyllic place. Everywhere reigns a kind of pacifying silence, it's so easy to drive away obsessive thoughts about everyday worries and remain alone with yourself.
Vyazma Museum of History and Ethnography
Vyazma, pl. Sovetskaya, 3 Vyazma Museum of History and Local History is visited not only by tourists who are interested in the historical past of the city, every self-respecting traveler seeks attention to this museum, and for this there are several undeniable reasons.
Sergey Yesenin's museum in Vyazma
Vyazma, pl. Efremova, 3, Apt. 22 Vyazemsky Museum of Sergei Yesenin is the first and for today the only museum in the Smolensk region devoted to the life and work of a famous poet. Not only does it have the same value as its Esenin museum in the village of Konstantinovo, it is also a very homey, warm museum.
Holy Trinity Cathedral in Vyazma
Vyazma, per. Nagorny, d. 1 In the historical center of Vyazma, on the left bank of the river, there is a beautiful Holy Trinity Cathedral - the heart of the city and the place of attraction of numerous pilgrims and ordinary tourists wandering around the immense Russian
Odigitria Church in Vyazma
Vyazma, ul. Dokuchaeva, 48A Amazing beauty the flower blossomed in the 17th century on Vyazemskaya land and still adorns these regions - the Odigitriev Church, like that there is no more in Vyazma alone, but also in the entire Smolensk region. The temple is also characterized by the fact that it is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List
Here everything is not just impregnated truly Russian spirit, but also as if filled with a special meaning. The centuries-old history of the city and the careful attitude to traditions and cultural heritage allow travelers to see Vyazma today as it was centuries ago. Culture, architecture and historical events are represented in full by a huge number of attractions.
Hardly any tourist begins his acquaintance with the city with a walk through the historical center, where, according to tradition, the greatest number of interesting monuments are collected. The historical part of Vyazma is the Cathedral Hill. Already in the 13th century wooden walls were built on this place, and in the 17th century a stone Kremlin was erected here and called it the Big Bottom City (the first wooden walls were called the Small Upper Town). Until now, only six of the six towers have reached Spasskaya.
The cathedral hill is also remarkable for the fact that here is the main Vyazma church - Holy Trinity Cathedral, which fully experienced the devastating impact of time: it was repeatedly subjected to ruin and perestroika, as a result of which its original appearance has changed markedly, and many valuable things were lost.
There are other temples in the city that will surely attract the attention of connoisseurs of church architecture: this is the current women's Ioanno-Predtechensky monastery, which for several centuries was spiritual the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, the Church of the Vladimir Icon of Our Lady and many others.
For lovers of passing time, walking through exhibition halls and studying carefully collected artifacts, Vyazma offers a choice of several museums: a local history museum with an exposition devoted to the history of the city, a museum of literary rarities in which materials are stored about Sergei Yesenin, and an exhibition hall intended for temporary exhibitions
Vyazemsky Monuments is a whole chronicle that embodies the history of the city and the country as a whole . The city has preserved many interesting monuments, for example, one of the most memorable xxia is established in honor of General M . G . Efremova, who, being in the Vyazma operation in 1942 surrounded, committed suicide in order not to be captured . In 1912 . a monument to the Pernov regiment was erected, which among the first compounds entered the captured by the French soldiers Vyazma . In the city there is another monument to the "Valorous Ancestors", dedicated to the battles for Vyazma in the war of 1812 ., in the form of a double-headed eagle tearing the French flag .