🏛 Sobornaya Gora and the Trinity Cathedral

Серпухов, Соборная гора

The hill above the Nara where the Serpukhov Kremlin stood: the Trinity Cathedral and remains of the white-stone fortress wall.

An oak kremlin was built here in 1374, when Prince Vladimir Andreevich made Serpukhov the capital of his appanage.
The stone kremlin of 1556 was entirely of white stone, a rarity among fortresses of that time.
The walls ran along the edge of the hill in an irregular triangle 933 metres long.
The townspeople last sheltered behind the walls in 1633, from a raid by the Crimean prince Mubarak-Giray.
In 1934 the kremlin was dismantled for stone to build the Moscow metro.
A wooden church stood on the site of the Trinity Cathedral as early as the 14th century, and the cathedral took its present look in the rebuilding of 1837–1841.
The 17th-century bell tower, hidden under 19th-century cladding, was uncovered in 1967–1970 by the architect Nikolay Sveshnikov.

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