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.

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Church of St John the Theologian and Church of St Boris and Gleb in Plotniki

Novgorod. The Torgovaya Storona. Church of St John the Theologian in Radokovitsy (1383-1384); in the background, Church of SS Boris and Gleb in Plotniki (1536). General view from the North

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Church of the Transfiguration of Christ

Novgorod. The Torgovaya Storona. Church of the Transfiguration of Christ on Ilyina Street (1374). General view from the South

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Church of St Theodore Stratilates-on-Ruchei

Novgorod. The Torgovaya Storona. Church of St Theodore Stratilates-on-Ruchei (1361). View from the South

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Torgovaya Storona

Novgorod. Torgovaya Storona. In the foreground, Church of St Paraskeva Pyatnitsa (1207; rebuilt in 1345, 16th-18th century); in the centre, the belfry (late 17th century) of the Cathedral of St Nicholas-on-Dvorische; on the right, the Vorotnaya (Gate) Tower of the Gostiny Dvor (Merchant’s Yard) (late 17th century). General view

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Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in the Perynsky Hermitage

Novgorod. Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in the Perynsky Hermitage (late 12th-early 13th century). General view

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Church of the Transfiguration of Christ-on-Nereditsa

Novgorod. Church of the Transfiguration of Christ-on-Nereditsa (1198). General view from the North

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The Yuriev Monastery

Novgorod. The Yuriev Monastery. St George Cathedral(l 119). General view from the East

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The Antoniev Monastery

Novgorod. The Antoniev Monastery. Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin (1117; with the porch added in the 17th century), to the right, the Church of the Presentation in the Temple (1533-1536). General view.

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Kremlin-citadel (general view)

Novgorod. Kremlin-citadel (walls and towers dating from 1484-1490). General view from the Torgovaya (Merchandise) Storona.

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