According to legend, Prince Yuri Dolgoruky, while organizing the Suzdal region, found that the city of Suzdal was not "on the spot", but "near the shallowest river". Soon, four miles from the city, he chose a place on the right bank of the Nerl River, not far from where the Kamenka River flows into it and which in ancient times controlled the river exit from the city. In 1152, Yuri Dolgoruky ordered the construction of a fortress, the building material had already been prepared, when suddenly the prince abandoned his intention. Since then, the village was called Kideksha (from the word "to leave"). And on an elevated place in the middle of the village, the craftsmen of Yuri Dolgoruky built the first white-stone church in those parts, building it from large, smoothly hewn limestone stones. On the stone bell tower of the Borisoglebskaya Church there is an ancient bell weighing 30 poods, on which is written the following inscription: “In the year 7066 (1558) this bell was made during the reign of the Tsar, the Grand Prince Ivan Vasilyevich of all Russia and Macarius, the Metropolitan. The Tsar gave this bell to the house of the Ascension of our Lord in the Pechersky Monastery during the reign of Archimandrite Joachim in Nizhny Novgorod.” According to legend, Tsar Ivan the Terrible, passing through Kideksha with his army to Kazan and needing lead for shells, removed the lead roof from the local monastery. And later, in exchange for it, along with other contributions from the Pechersky Monastery, he ordered this bell, cast from Livonian cannons, to be transferred. The Church of Boris and Gleb is part of the Borisoglebsky Monastery ensemble, being its main and most ancient building. The ensemble also includes the Church of St. Stefanius from the 17th-18th centuries and the bell tower from the 18th century. The buildings are surrounded by a brick fence. The ensemble is located on the high bank of the Nerl River. A village is located on three sides of it. The monument of white-stone architecture of North-Eastern Rus' is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
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