Kostroma

Trip Start Sep 13, 1997
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Trip End Oct 02, 1997


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Friday, September 19, 1997

Thank God It's Friday! Though you don't know which day of a week it is in this kind of trip.....

Today we arrived at Kostroma, another of the Golden Ring towns. "Golden Ring" refers to several large and small towns northeast of Moscow. All of them are with historic significance in Russian history and most of them are famous with their beautiful onion-domed churches. Kostroma is the second Golden Ring town we visited in this trip, just after Uglich.

I am still wondering where is the "golden" onion-domed. Most of the churches' domes are in blue, green, red,..... few of them are in golden color.

We had longer stay in this town, from 11:00 am till' 9:00 pm. The city tour only lasted for about 3 and ?hour. In the tour, of course, we saw some of the most famous and beautiful onion-domed churches in Kostroma. Kostroma is the place where the Romanov family (the last dynasty of the imperial Russia) originated, so the Ipatievsky Monastery there has a special museum and exhibition dedicated to this family. All the royal family members were killed after the October Revolution in 1918. The statue of the person giving the order to execute them, Lenin, is still standing tall across the river.

Just like onion-domed churches, the statues of Lenin are everywhere in Russia too. We didn't see that in Moscow. I heard that people in Moscow hate him so much that they have removed all of his statues after the communism collapsed. Hopefully, it will be Mao Zetong's turn very soon....

Of course, we had more souvenir shopping afterwards. Nothing special to buy, though. We have seen a lot amber, nested dolls, and fur hats on sale, but the prices of them are just not reasonable.

What!? You expected the post-communist Russians sell foreigners things with reasonable prices?

After the dinner, the local folk ensemble came to our boat to have some performance. It is okay, not very fancy.

But these dancers hold baskets outside the concert hall, asking for tips.........

The ship left the pier of Kostroma after 9:00 pm. It had been completely dark outside.
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