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some trees and shrubs, i Denied entrance to the Cathedral of the Dormition, the niost important building, because a service was in progress or restorations were, we were let into the Church of the Annunciation, built in the late 1400s. It contaihs some of Russia’s most elegant icons-the Virgin among oth- t ers, all expressing a piety and importance that more than 500 years has not dimmed nor caused to feel alien. Unknown artists touch lis at every turn in spaces that are small enough to give their works an aura of intimacy.
This richly decorated old church,
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