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	Sergiev Posad the Capital of the toy kingdom
		Sergiev Posad the place where the first russian matryoshka was made...
		Sergiev Posad was the place where the first nesting doll was made by artist Sergei Maliutin and a turner Vassiliy Zviozdochkin.
		In the 19th the toy craft of Sergiev Posad became the greatest in Russia.
	www.rustoys.com /fist_matryoshka.htm (585 words)

	Posad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A posad (посад) was a settlement, often rounded by bulwarks and a moat, by a town or a kremlin, but outside the town/kremlin, or by a monastery in the 10th to 15th centuries.
		In Russian Empire a posad was a small semi-urban settlement.
		Those by a monastery often gave rise to cities named after the monastery,e.g., Sergiev Posad is for Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Posad (136 words)

	G&R International / Russian Country side (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sergiev Posad is the town built around the Trinity Monastery of St. Sergius, one of Russia's most important religious and historical landmarks.
		The parents of Sergius of Radonezh, Russia's patron saint and founder of the Trinity Monastery of St. Sergius at Sergiev Posad, are buried in the convent's recently restored Intercession Cathedral (Pokrovsky sobor).
		Sergiev Posad is steeped in local culture and has influenced many locals in embracing the traditional crafts.
	hostels.ru /country-side (734 words)

	Russian Farmers Reap Rewards Of Organic Agriculture
		Sergiev Posad's agriculture administrator, hearing that there were two organic farmers in town, leapt at the opportunity to take advantage of our experience.
		CCI established a partnership with the Sergiev Posad ARAC and in January 1994 sent five instructors over to lecture on sustainable agriculture to the faculty.
		The Sergiev Posad model extension service was started with the cooperation of the regional government, the local organic farmers' association and CCI, and with funding from a small, one-year grant from ISAR.
	www.isar.org /pubs/ST/RUorgag49.html (1493 words)

	Nesting doll 5 pcs of Sergiev Posad – Gifts and Souvenirs – Golden Grail
		Thanks to or despite great popularity of Sergiev Posad matryoshka dolls> a lot of new centers of manufacturing and painting matreshkas appeared in Russia.
		The traditional type of Sergiev Posad matryoshka dollss picturing a woman holding something in the hands is now expanded with
		From the end of the 18th century - beginning of the 19th century we got carrved wooden toys picturing a peasant girl in kokoshnik, a dancing man, elegant boyarynias and hussars.
	www.goldengrail.com /goods/45.html (334 words)

	Travel Russia, Russie, Rusland, Hotels, St Petersburg, Sint Petersburg, Saint Petersbourg, apartment, tours, cruises, ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Departure from Moscow to Sergiev Posad by bus.
		Arrival to Sergiev Posad (Zagorsk) - Sergiev Posad (Zagorsk) was named after Saint Sergey who was born in Radonezh (a city situated next to Zagorsk) and was known as Sergey Radonezhsky.
		The oldest architectural ensemble of the town is the Kremlin, which consists of the ancient white stone Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin (1225), decorated with carvings, the vast complex of the Archbishop's Palace (15th-17th centuries), and the belfry (1635), connected to the Palace by a gallery.
	www.travel-russia.com /GTR/goldenring_2days.html (492 words)

	Schema of Sergiev Posad (Zagorsk). (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sergiev Posad is the pre-Soviet and post-Soviet name of the town.
		The name Sergiev Posad has the meaning "village settled by Sergius".
		The travel time from Sergiev Posad to downtown Moscow is about 1 hour and half or less.
	park.org /Guests/Russia/moscow/sergiev/shema.html (150 words)

	(WO 01/65196) SELF-DEFENSE ARM (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Institutskaya, 5, Sergiev Posad, Moskovskaya obl., 141300 (RU).
		Simonenkova, 19-7, Sergiev Posad, Moskovskaya obl., 141300 (RU).
		Zheleznodorozhnaya, 36-42, Sergiev Posad, Moskovskaya obl., 141300 (RU).
	www.wipo.int /ipdl/IPDL-CIMAGES/view/pct/getbykey5?KEY=01/65196.010907 (259 words)

	TolsToys \| Anastasia Russian Nesting Dolls Matryoshka Stacking Dolls, Lacquer Boxes and COllectible Gifts Ukranian
		That year, all of the assets of Children’s Education were transferred to a workshop in Sergiev Posad, which became, and still is, the center of nesting doll production in Russia.
		In 1904, the workshops of Sergiev Posad received a large matryoshka order from Paris, and many of the masters of Sergiev Posad directed their talents to this new product.
		The order from Paris provided the stimulus for many of Sergiev Posad’s artists and lathe operators to turn their attention to the making of nesting dolls.
	tolstoys.com (914 words)

	Best of Russia --- Culture --- Matreshka. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The style of Russian matreshka painting was greatly influenced by icon-painters of Sergiev Posad.
		Sergiev Posad was a place where the first nesting doll was made.
		Along with the icons, matryoshkas were painted as well in the icon painting school of Sergiev Posad.
	www.bestofrussia.ca /matreshka.html (780 words)

	Sergiev Posad: Sergiev Posad for Tourists
		In 1920 the Sergiev Posad State History and Art Museum was established by the Decree of the Soviet Government on the basis of the art treasures of the Trinity-St Sergius Laura, nationalized after 1917 revolution.
		The Museum of Toys was established in Moscow in 1918 by the artist N.D. Bartman and then transferred to Sergiev Posad in 1921.
		The monastery gathered all sorts of people related to the life of the monastery, especially craftsmen, who laid the beginnings of some famous artistic handcrafts flourishing at Sergiev Posad and around it this day.
	svdot.ru /demo/sposad/tourists (598 words)

	Sacred Sites of Russia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The grand monastic complex and church of Sergiev Posad, located 45 miles north of Moscow, is the center of Russian Orthodoxy and one of the most important places of pilgrimage in the entire country.
		The first religious structures at Sergiev Posad were founded by the Russian nobleman Sergius (1319-92), also called Sergiev, who retired to the forest of Radonezh with his brother Stephen to lead a life of prayer.
		In 1552, to celebrate the defeat of the Tartars, Czar Ivan Grozny (Ivan the Terrible) began construction of the Assumption Cathedral at Sergiev Posad.
	sacredsites.com /asia/russia/russia.htm (3484 words)

	Seriev Posad (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Art Museum and Ancient Monument at Sergiev Posad was established under a decree of Vladimir Lenin in 1920.
		The monastery at Sergiev Posad was also a fortress, notable for withstanding a 16-month siege.
		The relics of St. Sergius are buried at the white-stone Trinity Cathedral and the pall with his image is at the Museum in Sergiev Posad.
	www.fortunecity.com /bennyhills/mrbean/768/zagorsk.html (2033 words)

	Golden Ring Excursions
		The Lavra, Trinity St. Sergius Monastery of Sergiev Posad is inscribed on the UNESCO List of the World Cultural Heritage.
		Sergiev Posad is also the hometown of old Russian handicrafts.
		Sergiev Posad is the place where the first Russian matryoshka (nesting doll made of wood and beautifully hand-painted) was made.
	www.futurist.fi /goldring.htm (606 words)

	Sergiev Posad Museum: Internetional Archaeological Symposium (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is not by chace that Sergiev Posad was the place for such representative conference.
		The site was investigated by the Institute of Archaeology of RAS and by the Sergiev Posad Museum-Reserve which acquired the main part of the rich collection of the finds.
		In 1996 - 1997 the Sergiev Posad Museum organized an exhibition of the archaeological material from Zamostje-2 in Belgium and France which aroused great interest of specialists.
	www.divo.ru /musobl/archeo_e.html (347 words)

	Sergiyev Posad (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The town of Sergiyev Posad, known as Zagorsk during the Soviet era, is a small industrial and agricultural city about an hour from Moscow.
		It is most famous for its spectacular fortress monastery, the Trinity Monastery of St. Sergius, an important center in the Orthodox world.
		Just outside the monastery walls, on the edge of the parking lot, is a small bazaar at which one can purchase Russian handicrafts such as matrushka dolls and lacquered boxes.
	www.midwinter.com /~koreth/russia/posad (225 words)

	History of Russian matrioshka nesting dolls with flower painting, traditional stacking dolls, Semionovo matryoshka and ...
		Subsequently, it became a symbolic name and was used specially to image brightly painted wooden figurines made in a such way that they could taken apart to reveal smaller dolls fitting inside one another.
		The connection of certain early type of the matryoshkas of Sergiev Posad with the tradition of the local icon painting school is confirmed both stylistically and virtually.
		The matryoshka of Sergiev Posad has its own peculiarities: its top part flows smoothly into thicker lower part: it is painted with gouache and has a varnish surface.
	russian-crafts.com /nest/history.html (2793 words)

	The Jamestown Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: )
		According to one version of the incident, the Sergiev Posad OMON unit, which had just arrived in the North Caucasus, left the Russian military base at Mozdok, North Ossetia, on March 2 to replace another OMON unit, from the city of Podolsk, based in the Staropromyslovsk district of Djohar.
		The Sergiev Posad OMON unit was fired on near the settlement of Podgornoe, not far from Djohar.
		The Prosecutor General's Office, however, accepted the first variant--that the Podolsk OMON unit fired on the Sergiev Posad OMON unit as a result of a gross lack of coordination by senior Interior Ministry officers.
	www.jamestown.org /email-to-friend.php?article_id=19077 (820 words)

	Sergiev Posad (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sergiev Posad (ex-Zagorsk) was named after Saint Sergey who was born in Radonezh (a city situated next to Zagorsk) and was known as Sergey Radonezhsky.
		He founded a monastery there in 14th century that became then one of the greatest and biggest monasteries in Russia.
		Besides, there are some other interesting objects to see in the monastery such as the royal temporary residence, monastery hospital which is one of the first constructed in Russia, and the monkery cells.
	www.travel-russia.com /cities/SergievPosad/SergievPosad.html (373 words)

	Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia
		His Eminence Vladyka was greeted at the gates of the Lavra by His Grace Bishop Feognost of Sergiev Posad, Prior of Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra.
		Under the joyous din of the monastery bells, the delegation entered the ancient Holy Trinity Cathedral, where the relics of the Hegumen of the Russian Land, St. Sergius of Radonezh, are found.
		Then the members of the delegation and their guides: Archbishop Innokentii of Korsun, Bishop Feognost of Sergiev Posad and the Prior of the Lavra, Archimandrite Pavel, visited the holy sites and vestry of the Lavra.
	www.russianorthodoxchurch.ws /01newstucture/pagesen/news04/serposad.html (474 words)

	Columbia University: Covering Faith, An Inside Look at Religion and Russia and Ukraine
		Everyone else wearily boarded a bus bound for the Sergiev Posad monastery, founded by St. Sergius in the 14th century.
		Just outside Sergiev Posad, we stopped at a church in Radonezh, the village where St. Sergius spent his childhood.
		At Sergiev Posad, which includes a monastery with 200 monks, a seminary with 650 students, a museum and several churches, we had our first glimpse of snow and ice.
	www.columbia.edu /itc/journalism/goldman/spring_2002/dispatch6.html (1166 words)

	Electric samovar, cigarette cases, flasks, gzhel, lacquer box – Golden Grail
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		Nesting doll 5 pcs of Sergiev Posad Strawberry
		Nesting doll 5 pcs of Sergiev Posad woman with the baby
	www.goldengrail.com /about_en_4.html (329 words)

	Russian painted nesting dolls, Matrioshka
		Nesting dolls from Sergiev Posad are famous all over the world.
		Sergiev Posad is situated 73 km (45.5 miles) from Moscow.
		The dolls of Semionov differ from the nesting dolls of Sergiev Posad.
	www.millenniums.org /ppdolls.html (1062 words)

	Secretary Cohen Tours Russian Defense Facility - February 2, 1998
		The Sergiev Posad facility is being used as the central site for the delivery of security equipment, training, security assessment, and project development under the joint Department of Defense and Ministry of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) project.
		A center to assess security needs and develop projects to improve security of nuclear weapons in storage is being created at Sergiev Posad where work will form the basis for comprehensive upgrades to nuclear weapons storage sites.
		Today's tour by Secretary Cohen at the MoD facility at Sergiev Posad included a stop at the support base where delivery to the MoD is made of DoD-provided WPCandA assistance.
	www.fas.org /nuke/control/ctr/news/98-02-02.html (767 words)

	Trans-Siberian railway - Cities and towns - Moscow and its environs
		Numerous claustral slobodas situated around the monastery were united into Sergievskiy Posad town by Yakaterina II decree on March 22, 1782.
		Construction of road linking up Moscow with Sergiev Posad was finished in 1845, and 17 years later (1862) traffic by railway was opened.
		In 1919 posad was transformed to Sergiev town, Holy Trinity Laura was closed (it was re-opened in 1946 on the part of the territory).
	www.transsib.ru /Eng/city-mos.htm (2193 words)

	Russia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A Kremlin is a town’s fortified stronghold, and the first short, wooden wall around Moscow was built in the 1150’s.
		Sergiev Posad is the town in which the Trinity Monastery of St Sergius, one of Russia’s most important religious and historical landmarks and a place of both spiritual and national pilgrimage.
		Sergiev Posad (Zagorsk) is 60 km from the edge of Moscow on the Yaroslavl road.
	studyabroad.truman.edu /summer/russia03t.stm (1027 words)

	Latest News 249 -- Russia
		Some of the pupils of the School for Blind and Deaf Children in Sergiev Posad going out for a walk, led by a nurse.
		The plaque of the tree (in front of the Braille “Bible for Children” produced by the BSR) was made by one of the pupils of the School for Blind and Deaf Children in Sergiev Posad.
		A young pupil of the School for Blind and Deaf Children in Sergiev Posad, Russia, lost in his thoughts in the playground.
	www.biblesociety.org /latestnews/latest249.html (806 words)

	Sergiev Posad.
		Sergiev Posad is about 60k to the north east of the center of Moscow.
		Sergiev Posad played an important role in Russian history.
		Here, in Trinity Cathedral, is kept the famous Andrew Rublev's icon - "The Trinity", which was created specially for this cathedral.
	www.firebirdtravel.com /contact.php?Tourid=36 (127 words)

	The Towns of Golden Ring
		Sergiev Posad - Rostov the Great - Yaroslavl - Kostroma - Vladimir - Suzdal (4 days / 3 nights)
		Arrival to Sergiev Posad (70 km from Moscow).
		Departure to Sergiev Posad (70 km from Moscow).
	www.moscowvoyage.msk.ru /en/programmes/ring.htm (623 words)

	Sokol Tours: Tours: History: Sergeev Posad via Abramtsevo
		Surrounding Moscow is a “ring” of towns which all played a significant role in the history of Russia.
		The Holy Trinity - St. Sergius Monastery in Sergeev Posad (also Sergieva Lavra) was founded in the 1340’s by Sergius of Radonezh.
		Sergius was the Father Superior of the Monastery, and he played a major role in consolidating the fragmented lands of Rus.
	www.sokoltours.com /tours2.phtml?m=12 (509 words)

	Sergiev Posad best matrioshkas and many more lovely Russian souvenirs
		Sergiev Posad best matrioshkas and many more lovely Russian souvenirs
		Matreshka Is a wooden doll, usually in a colorful dress with successively smaller ones fitted into it.
		In the first decades of the 20th century Sergiev Posad craftsmen worked out their own unique graphic and ornamental forms for making and painting Russian matrioshkas that were deeply rooted in the local national traditions.
	goldengrail.com /goods/47/3/580/details.html (188 words)

	Russian sustainable ag conference
		4, 1996 Please find below an announcement for a sustainable agriculture conference to be held in Sergiev Posad (45 minutes north of Moscow) October 22-24, 1996.
		Please cross-post this message where appropriate and my apologies to those who are inadvertently duplicated.
		Our address: 141300 All- Russian Agricultural College, Sergiev Posad 11 Moscow region, Russia,141300 Secretariat of conference (Natalya Andreeva) E- mail : fds@glas.apc.org Fax : 096-54-42175 ("for Andreyeva"); Tel.
	www.ibiblio.org /london/agriculture/forums/sustainable-agriculture/msg01064.html (477 words)

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