Kudriavtsev, Fiodor Strelkova, Galina	The Golden Ring., Leningrad, Aurora Publishers 1988., 256, 115 color ill. and plates Publisher´s binding, FINE, 4th EDITION, SUPPLEMENTED	€20,00

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Small 8vo., designed by Klara Vysotskaya and Victor Levchenko. The best fourth edition of standard guidebook (Reiseführer) on Russia´s 'Golden Ring', a famous 'Potemkin villages' attraction designed during Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (1894 - 1971) reign. The book was printed and bound in Yugoslavia by special arrangement with Vneshtorgizdat. Acid-free paper, high resolution b/w and color plates after photographs by Irene Stin and Anatoly Firsov. The Golden Ring is a ring of cities northeast of Moscow, the capital of Russia. They formerly comprised the region known as Zalesye. These ancient towns, which also played a significant role in the formation of the Russian Orthodox Church, preserve the memory of the most important and significant events in Russian history. The towns have been called 'open air museums' and feature unique monuments of Russian architecture of the 12th–18th centuries, including kremlins, monasteries, cathedrals, and churches. These towns are among the most picturesque in Russia and prominently feature Russia's famous onion domes. There were eight cities originally included into the tourist route of Golden Ring, but many more are associated with it now: Sergiyev Posad, Pereslavl-Zalesskiy, Rostov Velikiy,Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Ivanovo, Gus-Khrustalny, Suzdal, Vladimir, Rybinsk, Uglich, Myshkin.