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Vladimir-Suzdal (Russian: ... Little is known about the region until the 1090s, except that the town of Yaroslavl had been founded upon the upper Volga by 1071, ...
In the strictest sense of the term, Suzdalian Chronicle only means the segment between 1177 and 1203, the preserved source texts of which are very similar in four surviving manuscripts: the Laurentian Codex, the Radziwiłł Chronicle, the Academic Chronicle, [2] and the Chronicler of Pereyaslavl-Suzdal (LPS). [4]
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Vladimir-Suzdal, formally known as the Principality of Vladimir-Suzdal or Grand Principality of Vladimir (1157–1331), also as Suzdalia or Vladimir-Suzdalian Rus', was one of the major principalities emerging from Kievan Rus' in the late 12th century, centered in Vladimir-on-Klyazma. With time the principality grew into a grand principality divided into several smaller principalities. After ...
The origins of the convent extend to the early days of the Suzdal principality. It was founded in 1207 by Bishop Ioann, who dedicated it to a Byzantine holiday commemorating the discovery of...
Suzdalskoye Knyazhestvo. Date: 1125 - 1363. Key People: Rurik dynasty. Related Places: Russia. Suzdal, medieval principality that occupied the area between the Oka River and the Upper Volga in northeastern Russia. During the 12th to 14th centuries, Suzdal was under the rule of a branch of the Rurik dynasty.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
This date has since been used as the official date of foundation of Suzdal, although as Suzdal was already in existence in 1024 it must have been founded sometime earlier. Some historians claim there is an even older mention of the city, which would mean the first mention came in 999 .
The Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin is a unique example of the limestone architecture of pre-Mongol Vladimir and Suzdal. It was erected between 1222 and 1225 on the site of the former Assumption Cathedral, which had been built by Vladimir Monomakh in the late 11th and early 12th centuries and later collapsed.
