Alisa Aksenova

RUSSIA’S GOLDEN MAP

A. Aksenova
The Vladimir-Suzdal Museum-Reserve

#1 2005 (06)

In 2004 the State History, Architecture and Art Vladimir-Suzdal Museum-Reserve celebrated its 150th anniversary, and thus is one of the oldest and largest museum associations in Russia. It includes the most significant art collect-ions and monuments of Vladimir, Suzdal, Bogolyubov, Kideksha and Gus Khrustalny; the assoc-iation incorporates 40 separate museum locations and 55 architectural monuments, nine of which are mentioned in UNESCO's World Heritage list. All these make the Vladimir-Suzdal Museum-Reserve a real attraction for tourists from Russia and abroad – a pearl of Russia's Golden Ring, visited every year by more than one million tourists from more than twenty countries.