🏛 Dmitrov Kremlin and the Earthen Rampart

Дмитров, Историческая пл.

12th-century earthen ramparts enclosing the Dormition Cathedral, the administrative buildings and the Church of St Elizabeth; a path runs along the rampart crest all around the fortress.

According to the chronicle, the fortress was founded by Yuri Dolgoruky in 1154, and the town was named after his son Dmitry, born here, the future Vsevolod the Big Nest.
The rampart stretches for 990 metres and is 7–9 metres high; it was finally heaped up between the mid-12th and late 13th centuries.
The fortress was sacked at least seven times, including by Batu in 1238, Tokhtamysh in 1382 and Edigei in 1408.
In 1301 four Russian princes met here; the four crowns in Dmitrov's coat of arms commemorate that gathering.
In 1610 the wooden kremlin was burned by Sapieha's retreating troops and never rebuilt.
Excavations in 2001–2003 found traces of a 10th-century Slavic settlement under the kremlin.

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Dmitrov: kremlin ramparts, a monastery and the canal