Our Chinese department:
12:00 Check-in at the hotel "On Valga". Lunch.
Transfer to the city of Veliky Ustyug. An inspection of the Cathedral courtyard, a story about its temples, the history of Veliky Ustyug.
Visit to the Cathedral of Prokopios the Righteous. The second Cathedral of the Cathedral Courtyard is dedicated to Saint Righteous Prokopius, the heavenly patron saint of Veliky Ustyug.
A German by birth, he converted to Orthodoxy and remained in Russia forever, choosing one of the most difficult and great feats of Christian piety – foolishness for Christ's sake.
The first fool for Christ's sake in Russia, famous for numerous miracles, the most important of which was the salvation of Ustyug from destruction by a stone cloud, was canonized at the Council of 1547.
Visit to St. John of Ustyuzha Cathedral. On May 29 (June 11), 1494, the second popular local fool John died in Ustyug, who was buried on the territory of Cathedral Square between the Assumption and Prokopiev Cathedrals.
A few years later, Fyodor Tutygin, a Ustyugan, built a church over John's coffin in the name of the Origin of the Honest and Life-Giving Cross, with a chapel dedicated to John (it became a cathedral church in 1683). This church became the third shrine of the cathedral complex.
Sightseeing of the Embankment of Veliky Ustyug accompanied by a tour guide.
Free time in the city.
Self-guided tour of the central part of the city. Supper.
