“A city on a river, a city of two banks. Only beneath us now is not the Don, but the Volkhov River. We are in Veliky Novgorod. What is the city’s life like today? Could it be somehow connected to the southern capital? It’s worth exploring.”
The Father of Russian Cities has hundreds of “sons” across the country — and therefore, a certain familial resemblance. Exploring the right bank begins with the embankment, local squares, and architecture, some of which date back to the 15th — or even 13th — century. And here comes the first comparison with the Don region.