FUN-travel: Uglich – Day 5 – Uniworld River Cruise
July 10, 2014 by Susan Clarke
Day 7 – Monday, July 7 – Uglich – blue skies w/big puffy, white clouds – high 70’s
Frescoes
Transfiguration Cathedral
What I LIKE
- 7:00 – typical wake up routine
- No hurry!
- Tour doesn’t start until 4:30
- 9:00 – breakfast – swing out w/egg white omelet
- 10:00 – cruise overview lecture
- 1:00 – lunch – salad bar & soup
- 2:30 – room R&R – nap
- 4:30 – walking tour of Uglich
- founded in Middle Ages
- Uglich means angel
- Harbor offers picturesque panorama of architectural monuments
- 1st stop – Transfiguration Cathedral
- largest building w/5 domes visible from every part of town
- 2nd stop – Church of the Prince Dmitry-On-the-Blood
- 10 yr old son of Ivan the Terrible mysteriously died here
- church built where body was found
- filled w/magnificent frescoes floor to ceiling
- painted by finest imperial icon artists
- Fabulous Orthodox choir performance by 6 men
- Have nice stroll thru town
- 6:45 – back on ship
- 7:30 – set sail for next stop
- 8:00 – dinner
- Midnight – finally fall asleep!
Church of the Prince Dmitry-On-the-Blood
What I DON’T LIKE
- Waking up at 4 am and not falling back to sleep
Church Flooded by Volga
- Don’t want to keep taking sleeping pills
- Free internet is slow and drops a lot of time!
FUN-fact – Uglich is one of Russia’s Golden Ring cities. That recently coined term evokes a heroic distant past. Located northeast of Moscow, the Golden Ring is composed of some of Russia’s oldest cities.
More FF – We have gone through a total of 7 locks since we left Moscow.