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 the prince suddenly 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, Yuri Dolgoruky's craftsmen built the first white-stone church in those parts, building it from large, smoothly hewn limestone stones. In 1780, next to the severe and majestic Borisoglebskaya Church, a small church was built in the name of the holy first martyr Stephen with a high gable roof, reminiscent of a wooden residential house. Not far away, a slender octagonal tent-roofed gate bell tower, erected on a square base, rose up, and a fence with the Holy Gates appeared. The tent-roofed bell tower with a passage arch was erected in the 18th century. Its tent is somewhat different from the usual Suzdal concave tents - it is straight, with a wide "police". Until the 20th century, a bell hung on it, dated 1552 - a gift from Ivan the Terrible on the occasion of the capture of Kazan. After it began to fall to the side a few years after the end of construction, the architects strengthened the foundation, moved the center of gravity and stabilized it. For more than two centuries, it has been crookedly rising from the Suzdal land, for which it was popularly called the "falling bell tower".
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 the prince suddenly 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, Yuri Dolgoruky's craftsmen built the first white-stone church in those parts, building it from large, smoothly hewn limestone stones. In 1780, next to the severe and majestic Borisoglebskaya Church, a small church was built in the name of the holy first martyr Stephen with a high gable roof, reminiscent of a wooden residential house. Not far away, a slender octagonal tent-roofed gate bell tower, erected on a square base, rose up, and a fence with the Holy Gates appeared. The tent-roofed bell tower with a passage arch was erected in the 18th century. Its tent is somewhat different from the usual Suzdal concave tents - it is straight, with a wide "police". Until the 20th century, a bell hung on it, dated 1552 - a gift from Ivan the Terrible on the occasion of the capture of Kazan. After it began to fall to the side a few years after the end of construction, the architects strengthened the foundation, moved the center of gravity and stabilized it. For more than two centuries, it has been crookedly rising from the Suzdal land, for which it was popularly called the "falling bell tower".
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