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four smaller ones representing the evangelists). Some remnants of the medieval frescoes remain, but most of the church was refrescoed in 1902. Among the frescoes is a large Christ
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bless his successor just before his death in 1226. This has led some scholars to argue that the archimandrites of the Yuriev
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The monastery also has the Church of the
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took part is unclear. A later veche (more a mob than a governmental assembly in this case) held the
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