St. George's Church, Staraya Ladoga St. George's Church, Staraya Ladoga St. George's Church () in the selo of Staraya Ladoga, Volkhovsky District, Leningrad Oblast, Russia is one of the oldest churches of Russia, dating from the second half of the 12th century. It is one of the few surviving pre-Mongol buildings in Russia. It contains the frescoes of the 12th century, extremely rare in Russia. The church is located within the Staraya Ladoga Fortress, on the left bank of the Volkhov River. The building was designated an architectural monument of federal significance (#4710025007). Staraya Ladoga was the first seat of Rurik in 862, and, after
Staraya Ladoga House of Creativity first of all landscape. Among them "Volkhov River. Last Snow" (1967) by Nikolai Timkov, "Volhov. Windy Day" (1964) by Leonid Whyshla, "At the Volhov River" (1967) by Nikolai Furmankov, "St. George's Cathedral. Staraya Ladoga" (1965), "Spring is Coming" (1972) by Vladimir Ovchinnikov, "Spring on the Volkhov River" (1968) by Lazar Yazgur, "Memoires" (1969) by Irina Dobrekova, "Chernavino Village" (1968), "White Night over the Volkhov River" (1979) by Dmitry Belyaev, "Street in Staraya Ladoga" (1962), "Staraya Ladoga" (1964), "At the Volkhov River" (1964) by Ivan Varichev, "At the Volkhov River" (1965) by Boris Ugarov, and other. The paintings were exposed in