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 Kursk is
one of the most ancient Russian towns. It was founded evidently
in the X century, but the first written mention of Kursk occurs
in the thirties of XI century. For a long time the town remained
a fortress which guarded the frontiers of Kiev Rus and ruled
in it Prince Izyaslav-the son of Vladimir Monomach. At the
beginning of the XIII century it was destroyed by the Tatar-Mongol
and fell into decay, which lasted for more then two hundred
years. That is why you can not find any monuments of ancient
Slavic architecture in Kursk.
Kursk was rebuilt in the XVI century when in 1596 under the
leadership of Voevode Ivan Poleva on the site of the former
town new fortress was erected, which got the former name.
The town was rapidly built up with wooden constructions but
fires razed them from time to time. Now the oldest building
in Kursk is Verchney Troitsa church, which was founded in
1695 and sanctified in 1705.
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By the middle of the XVIII century Kursk was one of ten
the largest towns in Russian Empire. At that time new stone
churches appeared in it and some of them you can see today:
Sergiev-Kazansky cathedral and St.Michael church. During
the reign of Catherine II old fortress was pulled down and
Kursk got the main lay-out.
In the XIX century Znamensky cathedral was erected. Its
magnificent dome is seen from different places of Kursk
till now. In that century a tradition to build one-two storey
dwelling houses with gardens established. A remarkable Russian
poet Feodor Tutchev being that time in Kursk wrote of it:
"The location is splendid.. this is one of those places,
which if it were not in Russia would have been interesting
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