By Irina
When you are going to distant Russia, you are always caught between: to go in winter or in summer? The most tourists definitely choose russian winter – the desperate ones! 
So, we also went to Russia to celebrate the Epiphany of the Lord.
St. Basil’s Cathedral, Red Square, Moscow. Russia.
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Castles are quite a rare architectural feature for Russia. There are plenty of churches, fortified hermitages, well-preserved military fortresses and ancient manors of the nobility, but the castles are the great wonder (really yet to seek).
Here you can see three castles, but can you really guess which one is located in Russia?
The trip was postponed several times during the two long years, and who knows, maybe the arrived mellow autumn gave us a shove to go finally. Here it is – the château in the Vladimir region, formerly owned by Count Khrapovitsky.
Chateau by Vladimir Khrapovitsky in the Vladimir region, Russia
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This happened long time ago when young Peter I ascended to the Russian throne.
A little manorial estate Dubrovitsy located near Moscow was owned by Knyaz Golitsyn – a tutor of Tzar Peter I. It was a time of troubles when everybody struggled for the Russian throne and as a result of a palace intrigues Boris Golitsyn was sent (expelled) to the village. Within a year the knowledge that the Knyaz was granted with a boyar’s title spread throughout the whole Dubrovitsy.
As a propitiatory gesture of the reconciliation with Peter I it was devised to build a new stony church of an unheard beauty – baroque church of the Sign of the Holy Mother of God.
So, let’s take a look at this fairly unconventional for Russia baroque church.
Peter I baroque church in Dubrovitsy near Moscow, Russia
Peter I approved this decision, kept it going and moreover, recommended an Italian architect to Golitsyn. The church was laid in 1690 with the Imperial presence of Tzar Peter the Great.
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