The Church of the Intercession on the Nerl in Bogolyubovo

Bogolyubovo (Russian: Боголю́бово) is an urban-type settlement in Suzdalsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia, located some ten kilometers northeast of Vladimir. Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages Urban-type settlement (посёлок городско́го ти́па posyolok gorodskogo tipa; селище міського типу selyshche mis'koho typu; Vladimir Oblast (Влади́мирская о́бласть Vladimirskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an Oblast) Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending Vladimir (Влади́мир) is a city in Russia, located on the Klyazma River, to the east of Moscow along the M7 motorway Population: 4,218 (2002 Census); 4,143 (1989 Census); 3,900 (1969). Russian Census of 2002 (Всеросси́йская пе́репись населе́ния 2002 го́да was the first Census of the Russian Federation carried The 1989 Soviet Census was the final and most comprehensive census taken within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Bogolyubovo was once the residence of the Prince Andrei Bogolyubsky. Prince Andrei I of Vladimir commonly known as Andrey Bogolyubsky (Андрей Боголюбский "Andrey the God-Loving" (c It was built between 1158 and 1165 by the order of Andrei Bogolyubsky at the mouth of the Nerl River (where it flows into the Klyazma River). The Nerl River (Нерль is a River in the Yaroslavl, Ivanovo, and Vladimir Oblasts in Russia, a left Tributary The Klyazma River (Клязьма is a River in the Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Ivanovo and Vladimir Oblasts in Russia Russian Orthodox Christians believe that Bogolyubovo was founded on the spot where Andrei Bogolyubsky saw a miraculous vision of the Theotokos (Virgin Mary). In Spirituality including Religion, visions comprise Inspirational renderings generally of a Future state and/or of a mythical Theotokos (Θεοτόκος translit Theotókos) is a title of Mary the mother of Jesus used especially in the Eastern Orthodox, On that spot, the Church of the Intercession on the Nerl was built. The Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin on the Nerl River (Церковь Покрова на Нерли Tserkov Pokrova na Nerli) is an Orthodox church After his death in 1177, Bogolyubovo was ravaged and ransacked by Prince Gleb of Ryazan. Prince, from the Latin root Princeps, is a general term for a Monarch, for a member of a monarch's or former monarch's family and is a In 1230s, the Mongols destroyed its fortifications.