Ancient walls

The painting was painted from life. Trinity-Gleden Monastery in the village of Morozovitsa near Veliky Ustyug.
The monastery is located at the place where previously a fortress of Gleden was built in the end of the 12th century by Vsevolod the Big Nest, the Grand Prince of Vladimir. Gleden was the predecessor of Veliky Ustyug and was destroyed in the 15th century during wars between Russian princes.