Kostroma Region in 3 Russian words
Kostroma Region is famous for its icon painting and fresco painting, as well as folk crafts and trades. Here are three more of its symbols.
1. Ivan Susanin
During the war against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1613, Kostroma peasant Ivan Susanin saved the life of Tsar Mikhail Romanov. The Poles were looking for the Russian monarch, who was then in one of the villages near Kostroma, and demanded that Susanin lead them to him. The peasant, instead, led the enemy detachment into a thicket and was killed for it.
2. Ipatiev Monastery
The Holy Trinity Ipatiev Monastery is dubbed the “cradle of the Romanov dynasty”. It was there on March 24, 1613, that the decision of the Zemsky Sobor, the parliament of the Russian state of that era, on the election of Mikhail Fedorovich, the first tsar from the Romanov dynasty, to the throne was announced.
3. Andrei Tarkovsky
The famous movie director was born in the village of Zavrazhye near Kostroma on April 4, 1932. He was born a little prematurely and his grandfather, a surgeon, had to deliver the baby on the dinner table. Although Tarkovsky lived in Zavrazhye for only a few months, there is a museum dedicated to him there.
