ancient towns of vladimir, Suzdal, Kostroma, rostov, Yaroslavl played a significant role in early Russian history and in the formation of the Russian Orthodox church. One of the most inspiring tours and a great break from the bustle of Moscow or Saint Petersburg, The Golden Ring is a concentration of middle age architecture on the Russian country-side background Russian architecture of the 12th–18th centuries Visiting the Golden Ring will give you a chance to go back in time and imagine Russia several centuries ago — an unforgettable adventure to experience their magnificent kremlins, monasteries, cathedrals and churches where the time seems to stop carrying a long and often dramatic history of Russian tsars, the Mongol invasion and many other historical figures and events.