rinakh writes a short note. this note contained just a few words. the russian, you won’t meet him near moscow. near moscow you will see. modern researchers place the venerable irenarch on a par with the venerable sergius of radonishsky who blessed dmitry donskoy for the battle of kulikovo. yaroslavl in the 17th century was not the center of the region, but a large trading city, which was also not spared by the events of the century. in 1608 , the poles entered the city and although yaroslavl did not remain under foreigners for long, this time was remembered for robberies and reprisals. the spasopreobrazhensky monastery is the only fortified structure in yaroslavl that was never taken by the troops of jan sapegiy alexander lisovsky. the monastery still looks very impressive. walls up to 10 m high with military passages and loopholes, corner. towers, fortified gates. in the early spring of 1612, yaroslavl became the temporary capital of the moscow state, here from nizhny novgorod. for this purpose, several camps were set up, one of them on the shore,