Notes:
Trains
leave every 30 minutes between Sergiev Posad and Moscow's Yaroslavsky train station. The station
is located at Komsomolskaya metro station (red line). A ticket to Sergiev
Posad costs 132 rubles (1.5 h, prices in 2012) and 181 rubles on express (5-6
times a day, 1 h). It is an easy day trip from Moscow.
The
monastery of Sergiev Posad is one of the most beautiful monasteries in Russia
and one of the principal spiritual centers of the Russian Church. It is a
combination of a fortress and a monastery. The seminary of the Russian
Orthodox Church is located in the buildings of the complex. There are several
churches to see, a holy source and in general the whole complex with its
massive walls and gates is very picturesque. There are no admission price to
pay except for the museum, which shows old religious objects and woven
pictures of saints. At the weekend the monastery can get very crowded, as it
hosts some very important icons (at least copies of them). In return it can
be very interesting to observe the believers kissing the icons and praying
for hours.
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