Early Russia's foremost cultural and art centre. For the many centuries ever since Novgorod produced a large artistic school and preserved numberless monuments of the 11th-17th-century architecture, along with artistically outstanding works of early monumental painting.

Kremlin-citadel. Belfry of St Sophia Cathedral

Novgorod. Kremlin-citadel. Belfry of St Sophia Cathedral (1437, rebuilt in the 16th and 17th centuries). General view from the West

Kremlin-citadel. Belfry of St Sophia Cathedral

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

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