MONUMENT OF RUSSIAN HISTORY AND CULTURE OF THE XII CENTURY – TRANSFIGURATION CATHEDRAL IN PERESLAVL-ZALESSKY. STUDY AND RESTORATION. II part

The article is devoted to the study and restoration of the oldest monument of Russian history and religious architecture of the Transfiguration Cathedral of the XII century Pereslavl-Zalessky. The cathedral, founded in 1152 by Grand Duke Yuri Dolgoruky at the foundation of the future capital of Northeastern Russia, the city of Pereslavl-Zalessky and completed in 1157 by the Holy Prince Andrei Bogolyubsky, is the ancestor of Vladimir-Suzdal architecture of the XII–XIII centuries.