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Join us on the 70-foot-long and 40-foot-wide catamaran, and enjoy the constant breeze, and let the smell of sea salt fill your lungs as you coast above the waves while basking in the sun on the oversized frontal netting area with a cocktail in your hand.
You’ll be treated to scenic stops while you take in the panoramic views of the coastline from the comfort of the large, shaded decks of the Palm Pleasure. Our hospitable staff will pick you up at your hotel, and then take you back when your exciting day is over, so you won’t have to worry about transportation.
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Jock Whitney’s Iconic Aphrodite Now Queen of Watch Hill, RI
Once the pride of the Gold Coast commuter boats that whisked financiers from their Long Island homes to their Wall Street offices in the 1930s, Aphrodite , one of the most easily recognized boats on the water, is now the pride of Watch Hill, Rhode Island, having been totally restored back to her former glory.
Even in its original incarnation, Aphrodite was never just another pretty commuter boat. It was commissioned by John Hay “Jock” Whitney in 1937 from the Purdy Boat Company in Port Washington, on the north shore of Long Island. Whitney lived in Manhasset, across the bay from Port Washington, and took his 72-foot commuter boat from his waterfront mansion there to his Wall Street office during the spring and summer. The problem was that Whitney’s brother-in-law, Charles Payson, had a faster commuter boat, and was passing Whitney on Long Island Sound.
Purdy built Aphrodite to go fast, with twin 1,500-hp Packard airplane engines. They pushed the 74-foot boat to a top speed of 38 knots, faster than Payson’s boat and any other commuter boat on the Sound, although it did burn 300 gallons of aviation fuel an hour. It also was arguably the prettiest commuter boat on the water, with its signature torpedo stern, long, low, black profile and gleaming mahogany.
During the Second World War, Whitney gave the boat to the Navy, which used it to carry dignitaries (including President Roosevelt) up and down the East Coast. After the war, when Whitney was the publisher of The New York Herald Tribune , he sent Aphrodite every morning from his then summer home on Fishers Island to New London to pick up the morning papers. He also entertained on the boat, with a guest list running from Fred Astaire and Spencer Tracy to Shirley Temple. But in the ‘60s Whitney donated the boat to charity, and it eventually went through several owners and various states of disrepair.
In 2003, Chuck Royce, of Royce Mutual Funds, found Aphrodite languishing in Florida and brought it up to the Brooklin Boatyard in Maine for a total, two-year restoration. The boat now is moored in Watch Hill, near the Ocean House hotel and resort there, which Royce also restored.
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Aphrodite: How a storied yacht was restored to former glory
Kirk Reynolds hesitates just a fraction of a second when he's asked about Aphrodite, the 74-foot vessel that ties up every summer in Watch Hill Harbor and of which he is the captain.
"Who is she? What is she? She's like a Ferrari," he purrs in response. "She's fast and nimble and quick. Light. But she is really pretty easy-going, she's got a free spirit. She is the goddess of love after all."
Aphrodite, the private yacht of Ocean House owner and developer Charles M. "Chuck" Royce, is as well known in local waters as the ferries and fishing boats that regularly ply Long Island and Fishers Island sounds.
Mariners know the hum of Aphrodite's twin 1,000-horsepower Caterpillar C18 engines and recognize its distinctive silhouette on the horizon, even from a considerable distance.
Built by the Purdy Boat Company in Port Washington, N.Y., and launched in May of 1937, this Aphrodite was the third in a series of five boats by the same name and originally was used as a commuter yacht by a Wall Street financier named John Hay "Jock" Whitney.
Whitney would be chauffeured to the boat and, once on board, he'd shave, dress and then have his coffee and read the newspaper on his quick voyage to Wall Street.
Following the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, Whitney offered the boat to the government for war service, and in 1942 it was commissioned as a Coast Guard auxiliary vessel.
It was during this time that President Franklin D. Roosevelt was ferried on Aphrodite from his home in Hyde Park, N.Y., along the Hudson River, and other dignitaries were transported along the Eastern Seaboard.
Reynolds said Aphrodite also would carry A-list Hollywood celebrities, like Spencer Tracy, Sir Laurence Olivier and Katharine Hepburn, because of their relationship with Jock Whitney, who backed Technicolor and convinced David O. Selznick to produce "Gone With the Wind." Today, a photo of childhood star Shirley Temple onboard Aphrodite hangs in the ship's parlor; she celebrated a birthday onboard.
By the 1960s, Whitney outgrew his use for Aphrodite and donated the boat to a program for inner-city youth that was held on Long Island. After that, the vessel went through a series of owners and eventually fell into a state of neglect, at least until the late 1990s, when friends of Reynolds saw it in Palm City, Fla.
Reynolds, who owned a boat painting and varnishing business in southeastern Connecticut, had just been hired by Royce to tend to and captain his boats.
Recognizing the beauty of Aphrodite but not knowing the boat's storied history, Reynolds' friends alerted him and suggested that his new boss might be the only person to save it. That started a complicated process of working with the owner, surveying and assessing the boat, and researching its history.
Reynolds said Royce initially was noncommittal, but the more he saw and heard about Aphrodite, he soon became smitten.
Locally known for his business acumen, philanthropy and preservation efforts, Royce recognized the value of saving Aphrodite.
"He said, 'This is a piece of American yachting history and it needs to be saved, because in another year, it will be gone,'" Reynolds said.
It was 1999 and Aphrodite was in dire shape.
"The boat was derelict," Reynolds said. "The bilge pump, all four bilge pumps, were running 24 hours a day to keep it floating. And the worm damage and termite damage was so extensive. And any time it rained, there was water coming in everywhere."
Painstaking restoration
By 2000, Royce owned Aphrodite, and was going to do for the boat what he also did for the Ocean House, the historic ocean-front hotel in Watch Hill that he recreated.
But don't call Aphrodite a replica, says Reynolds, who is adamant that it was a restoration.
"I can argue that point all day long," he said. "There are some people who feel it is a replica, but there wasn't a day when you could walk into that shop and say what boat is that? You could always tell it was Aphrodite."
The boat was moved to the Brooklin Boat Yard in Brooklin, Maine, in 2003 and painstakingly restored.
"They took the old pieces off, and they put new pieces on as the old pieces were being taken off," said Reynolds, who watched much of the work.
The same species of woods as the original were used, as were the same methods of construction, albeit with modern techniques and materials like glues and adhesives, Reynolds said. One exception was the fiberglass cabin top.
There is air conditioning now, and a few other modern amenities, but Aphrodite looks much like it did when Jock Whitney was onboard.
The vessel still employs its original cast bronze, chrome-plated shifters and throttles that followed the boat in a cardboard box for 50 years. Today they are digitized. And, the boat has many original fixtures, such as running and masthead lights, cleats, stanchions and bow chocks.
"It's pretty remarkable we still have them," Reynolds said.
The boat is mostly used now by Royce family and friends for luncheons and sunset cruises, and everywhere it goes, it gets noticed.
"She gets a lot of attention, and that is kind of hard to take sometimes," Reynolds said.
"We pull up to a dock and hands on the boat are tossing a line and the line just falls to the feet (of the person onshore ready to catch it) because they're just staring at the boat," he said.
But he admits it's fun, and there is much pride with all the attention.
'She's an icon'
Aphrodite is long and lean, and its Philippine mahogany hull is always varnished and sparkling.
It is 74 feet long with a 14.6-foot beam, and displaces 22 tons, drawing just four feet. Eighty years ago, when it was built, the contract set the price at $90,000 and there was a stipulation that the boat must do 38 mph.
Today, the boat's cruising speed is 30 mph and it can make the 90-mile trip from Watch Hill to the Royce home in Greenwich in three hours. Running at 26 mph, Reynolds said the vessel burns about a gallon of fuel a mile, or wide open, at about 40 mph, it will burn about 150 gallons an hour.
Mostly, the boat runs in Fishers Island and Long Island sounds, and spends time at its summer home on the Plimpton Dock in the Watch Hill Harbor.
"She's an icon," Reynolds said. "In Watch Hill, people look forward to seeing this boat every season. You cannot do this job and be on this boat and think you're going to be invisible."
The captain is grateful that his employer had the foresight and wherewithal to save this classic vessel.
"For Chuck, it really is about preserving for the next generation," Reynolds said.
"It's not just boats, he does properties, houses, too. For him, it's about preserving the past because it's flying by so fast, and next thing you know, it's gone, and if you don't do something, it's all going to be gone."
Royce was not available for comment and Reynolds would not disclose what his employer paid for the boat or how much he invested to renovate it, but he did say it was an investment intent on preservation.
"It was important for him with Aphrodite, and a few other vintage boats he's had, that they are maintained and preserved," Reynolds said. "So, all his projects have been to save it for future generations."
The captain said Aphrodite is regularly used and the public can get a chance to cruise on it when Royce and his wife, Deborah, put rides up as an auction item at charitable functions.
But for most people, it's the iconic boat in Watch Hill Harbor, a throwback to the past, to a different time and lifestyle, and it has been preserved as a reminder.
"We could have made it better than when it was built, we could have, but I didn't want to and Chuck didn't want to," Reynolds said. "It was very important to Chuck that it be the same boat."
Is it really the same boat, he's asked.
Absolutely, says Reynolds.
"She still has the same soul, I know, I can tell."
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Originally built by the Purdy Boat Company in May of 1937 for Wall Street financier, John Hay (Jock) Whitney of Long Island, Aphrodite has its own comprehensive history. Best described as a “Commuter Yacht”, this elegant and sleek 74-footer would whisk Whitney on a journey down the Long Island Sound to his Wall Street office.
Over the years, Aphrodite ’s guest list became a “Who’s Who” for summer day cruises with such luminaries as Fred Astaire, Sir Laurence Olivier, Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn, Henry Ford II, FDR advisor Harry Hopkins, Shirley Temple and Nelson Rockefeller. In April 1942 she was commissioned as a Coast Guard auxiliary vessel and spent her war-time career ferrying dignitaries and transporting President Roosevelt to and from his Hyde Park home. In 1983, John Pannell, owner of the Harbor View Marine repair company, restored the yacht and relaunched the Aphrodite in 1984.
Pannell sold Aphrodite to her present owner in 2003 t0 a classic boat enthusiast, Charles Royce, who began a complete restoration of the yacht to bring her systems up to today’s standards. The Aphrodite went through complete restoration using the original boat as a template at the Brooklin Boat Yard. True to the Royce’s nature, and similarly done with the Ocean House, the first stage of the project was to extensively catalog all aspects of the boat for later reference. Once this historical documentation was completed, reconstruction began with the replacement of the original backbone, stem, floors and the reframing of Aphrodite’s signature torpedo stern. Once the framing work was completed, the hull was then re-planked, as originally built, with two layers of Philippine mahogany and copper rivets. A new deck, along with the crafting of Aphrodite’s distinctive cabin and interior accommodations was then finalized. In October of 2005, the Aphrodite ’s owners departed the Center Harbor waters for the yacht to begin a new life based in Watch Hill, Rhode Island.
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Aphrodite "The Commuter Yacht"
The classic aphrodite on a blustery october day in watch hill, ri "the commuter yacht" aphrodite was built by the purdy boat company and launched in may of 1937 for wall street financier and later ambassador to the court of st. james, john hay (jock) whitney of manhasset, long island. aphrodite's guest list over the years reads like a "who's who" in the worlds of government, business and entertainment with such luminaries as fred astaire, sir laurence olivier, spencer tracy, katherine hepburn, henry ford ii, fdr advisor harry hopkins and nelson rockefeller aboard for summer day cruises down long island sound. aphrodite also once served as the site for a birthday party for shirley temple. more info on aphrodite here www.brooklinboatyard.com/aphrodite.html.
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APHRODITE was built by the Purdy Boat Company and launched in May of 1937 for Wall Street financier and later Ambassador to the Court of St. James, John Hay (Jock) Whitney of Manhasset, Long Island.
Best described as a “Commuter Yacht”, this elegant and sleek 74-footer would each morning whisk Mr. Whitney from his large two-story boat house westward down Long Island Sound and thru the East River to his Wall Street office. During the 45 minute commute Mr. Whitney would go up to the forward cockpit and read the Herald Tribune to catch up on the day’s news.
APHRODITE’S guest list over the years reads like a “Who’s Who” in the worlds of government, business and entertainment with such luminaries as Fred Astaire, Sir Laurence Olivier, Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn, Henry Ford II, FDR advisor Harry Hopkins and Nelson Rockefeller aboard for summer day cruises down Long Island Sound. APHRODITE also once served as the site for a birthday party for Shirley Temple.
The day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Mr. Whitney offered APHRODITE to the government for war service and she was commissioned in April 1942 as a Coast Guard auxiliary vessel (CGR-557). The boat spent most of its war-time career ferrying dignitaries up and down the Atlantic coast and transporting President Roosevelt to and from his home at Hyde Park on the Hudson River.
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The Purdy Boat Company ~ Port Washington, New York ~ 1937 Original Specifications: Hull: #203 - Design: In House - Year: 1937 - LOA: 74' - LWL: 72' - Beam: 14' 6"- Draft: 3' 5" - Displ: 22.83T Framing: White Oak - Planking: Dbl Phil Mahogany - Power: Twin 12-cyl, 800hp Packard's Builder History: During the early 1890's Ned and Gil Purdy started their careers at the Charles L. Seabury Co. boat yard in Nyack, NY. Following leadership roles at the Consolidated Shipbuilding Co. in Morris Heights, NY. The Purdy Boat Company, backed by entrepreneur Carl G. Fisher, was founded in 1914. Of all locations for a boat builder, the firm sat on the grounds of the Indianapolis Speedway also owned by Fisher. Their primary client, Fisher reighned in Gold Cup speedboat racing during the 20's and 30's. As the company grew over time, three sites also were to become home- Miami Beach, Trenton, MI then finally Port Washington, NY. In 1927 Fisher turned total operation over to the Purdy's. Known as merchants of speed and with many wealthy clients, Purdy also built fishing boats, racing sailboats, large luxury yachts and even gondolas. Approximately 322 vessels were produced during this legendary company's history. Their last build in 1954 was a Star Sailboat. Vessel History: Built for John (Jock)Hay Whitney, this yacht became a familiar sight on Long Island Sound. “The Black Lady” swiftly carried Mr. Whitney to and from his Wall Street offices every day. The boat became USCG Vessel CGR557 during WW II and was returned in 1945. She continued as Whitney's personal yacht until deeded to Boy's Harbor in 1962. In 1965 she was owned briefly by John Kelly. The next 21 years remain unclear. John Pannel restored the boat in 1983 operating her for 17 years. In 2000 Charles M. Royce, a vintage boat devotee, found and purchased her near Stuart, Florida. After patching and re-launching, she returned to Long Island Sound. The Brooklin Boat Yard in Brooklin, Maine meticulously resurrected this legendary yact from 2003-2005. Since 2006, proudly flying burgees from the New York Yacht Club, Westerly and Riverside Yacht Clubs, “Aphrodite III” made Watch Hill, RI her home.
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Launched in 1937 by the Purdy Boat Company, this commuter yacht was restored at the Brooklin Boat Yard for a 40,000-hour restoration and rebuild. That is 10 men and women working only on this boat for two years.
Aphrodite turns heads at the pier and underway. She is repowered with twin 1,000 Hp Cat diesels using traditional shaft drives. Her underdeck of plywood and teak regular deck stiffens the whole lightly framed boat to handle the power and speed.
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Best described as a “Commuter Yacht”, this classic and sleek 74-footer would in the morning carry Mr. Whitney from his large two-story boat house down Long Island Sound and thru the East River to his Wall Street office. During the less than an hour commute Mr. Whitney would go up to the forward cockpit and read his Herald Tribune to catch up on the day’s events.
Built as one of the Gold Coast commuter boats that whisked financiers from their Long Island homes to their Wall Street offices in the 1930s. She was commissioned to be built by John Hay “Jock” Whitney. Whitney lived in Manhasset, across the bay from Port Washington, and took his 74-foot commuter boat from his waterfront mansion there to his Wall Street office during the spring and summer.
Purdy built Aphrodite to go fast, with twin 1,500-hp Packard airplane engines. They pushed the 74-foot boat well, but did not survive the years, thus the repower with twin CAT diesels. It also was the prettiest commuter boat on the water, with its signature torpedo stern, long, low, profile and gleaming mahogany.
During the Second World War, Whitney gave the boat to the Navy, which used it to carry dignitaries. After the war the government gave it back to him. He entertained on the boat, with a guest list running from Fred Astaire and Spencer Tracy to Shirley Temple.
In 2003, Chuck Royce, of Royce Mutual Funds, found Aphrodite in Florida and brought it up to the Brooklin Boatyard in Maine for a total, two-year restoration. The boat now is moored in Watch Hill, near the Ocean House hotel and resort there, which Royce also restored.
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The balashikha ripper, the hippopotamus, active for 6 years (1988-1993) in russia, confirmed victims, possible victims.
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Sergei Ryakhovsky (Sergei Vasilyevich Ryakhovsky) a Soviet-Russian serial killer known as the Balashikha Ripper and The Hippopotamus. Ryakhovsky was convicted for the killing of nineteen people in the Moscow area between 1988 and 1993. Ryakhovsky's mainly stabbed or strangulated his victims, he mutilated some bodies, mainly in the genital area. Allegedly Ryakhovsky carried out necrophilic acts on his victims and stole their belongings. Ryakhovsky standing 6’5" tall and weighting 286 pounds, gaining him the nickname, The Hippo. Sergei Ryakhovsky died on January 21st 2005 from untreated tuberculosis while serving his life sentence in prison.
Sergei Ryakhovsky Serial Killer Profile
Serial Killer Sergei Ryakhovsky (aka) the Balashikha Ripper, The Hippopotamus, was active for 6 years between 1988-1993 , known to have ( 19 confirmed / 19 possible ) victims. This serial killer was active in the following countries: Russia
Sergei Ryakhovsky was born on December 29th 1962 in Balashikha, Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union. He had a physically defect. During his education he had academic, social or discipline problems including being teased or picked on.
Sergei Ryakhovsky a necrophile male citizen of Russia.
Prior to his spree he had killed, commited crimes, and served time in jail.
In 1988 (Age 25/26) Sergei Ryakhovsky started his killing spree, during his crimes as a serial killer he was known to rob, commit acts of necrophilia , torture , strangle , rape , mutilate, and murder his victims.
He was arrested on April 13th 1993 (Age 30), sentenced to death by firing squad at a maximum-security penal colony in Solikamsk, Perm Oblast, Russia. He was convicted on charges of murder and other possible charges during his lifetime.
Sergei Ryakhovsky died on January 21st 2005 (Age 42), cause of death: natural causes, untreated tuberculosis at a maximum-security penal colony in Solikamsk, Perm Oblast, Russia.
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Sergei Ryakhovsky has been listed on Killer.Cloud since November of 2016 and was last updated 5 years ago.
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Rape is usually defined as having sexual intercourse with a person who does not want to, or cannot consent.
( 60 killers ) NECROPHILIAC
Necrophilia, also called thanatophilia, is a sexual attraction or sexual act involving corpses. Serial Killer Necrophiliacs have been known to have sex with the body of their victim(s).
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Sergei Ryakhovsky Serial Killer Profile:
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Sergei Ryakhovsky
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the Balashikha Ripper, The Hippopotamus
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19 - 19
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25/26 - 30/31
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Dec 29, 1962
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Balashikha, Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union
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Highest School:
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Highest Degree:
Incarceration
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Apr 13, 1993 (Age 30)
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N/A
Sentence:
death by firing squad
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a maximum-security penal colony in Solikamsk, Perm Oblast, Russia
Executed:
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Jan 21, 2005 (Age 42)
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natural causes
Cause of Death:
untreated tuberculosis
Death Location:
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Killed In Prison:
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8 Timeline Events of Serial Killer Sergei Ryakhovsky
The 8 dates listed below represent a timeline of the life and crimes of serial killer Sergei Ryakhovsky. A complete collection of serial killer events can be found on our Serial Killer Timeline .
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Sergei Ryakhovsky was born in Balashikha, Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union.
(Age 20)
20th Birthday
(Age 25/26)
Sergei Ryakhovsky started his serial killing spree.
(Age 30)
30th Birthday
(Age 30/31)
Sergei Ryakhovsky ended his serial killing spree.
(Age 30)
Sergei Ryakhovsky arrested.
(Age 40)
40th Birthday
(Age 42)
Sergei Ryakhovskydied.cause of death:natural causes,untreated tuberculosisat a maximum-security penal colony in Solikamsk, Perm Oblast, Russia.
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The Unique Burial of a Child of Early Scythian Time at the Cemetery of Saryg-Bulun (Tuva)
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In 1988, the Tuvan Archaeological Expedition (led by M. E. Kilunovskaya and V. A. Semenov) discovered a unique burial of the early Iron Age at Saryg-Bulun in Central Tuva. There are two burial mounds of the Aldy-Bel culture dated by 7th century BC. Within the barrows, which adjoined one another, forming a figure-of-eight, there were discovered 7 burials, from which a representative collection of artifacts was recovered. Burial 5 was the most unique, it was found in a coffin made of a larch trunk, with a tightly closed lid. Due to the preservative properties of larch and lack of air access, the coffin contained a well-preserved mummy of a child with an accompanying set of grave goods. The interred individual retained the skin on his face and had a leather headdress painted with red pigment and a coat, sewn from jerboa fur. The coat was belted with a leather belt with bronze ornaments and buckles. Besides that, a leather quiver with arrows with the shafts decorated with painted ornaments, fully preserved battle pick and a bow were buried in the coffin. Unexpectedly, the full-genomic analysis, showed that the individual was female. This fact opens a new aspect in the study of the social history of the Scythian society and perhaps brings us back to the myth of the Amazons, discussed by Herodotus. Of course, this discovery is unique in its preservation for the Scythian culture of Tuva and requires careful study and conservation.
Keywords: Tuva, Early Iron Age, early Scythian period, Aldy-Bel culture, barrow, burial in the coffin, mummy, full genome sequencing, aDNA
Information about authors: Marina Kilunovskaya (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Vladimir Semenov (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Varvara Busova (Moscow, Russian Federation). (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Kharis Mustafin (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Technical Sciences. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Irina Alborova (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Biological Sciences. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Alina Matzvai (Moscow, Russian Federation). Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected]
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Zvenigorod's most famous sight is the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery, which was founded in 1398 by the monk Savva from the Troitse-Sergieva Lavra, at the invitation and with the support of Prince Yury Dmitrievich of Zvenigorod. Savva was later canonised as St Sabbas (Savva) of Storozhev. The monastery late flourished under the reign of Tsar Alexis, who chose the monastery as his family church and often went on pilgrimage there and made lots of donations to it. Most of the monastery’s buildings date from this time. The monastery is heavily fortified with thick walls and six towers, the most impressive of which is the Krasny Tower which also serves as the eastern entrance. The monastery was closed in 1918 and only reopened in 1995. In 1998 Patriarch Alexius II took part in a service to return the relics of St Sabbas to the monastery. Today the monastery has the status of a stauropegic monastery, which is second in status to a lavra. In addition to being a working monastery, it also holds the Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum.
Belfry and Neighbouring Churches
Located near the main entrance is the monastery's belfry which is perhaps the calling card of the monastery due to its uniqueness. It was built in the 1650s and the St Sergius of Radonezh’s Church was opened on the middle tier in the mid-17th century, although it was originally dedicated to the Trinity. The belfry's 35-tonne Great Bladgovestny Bell fell in 1941 and was only restored and returned in 2003. Attached to the belfry is a large refectory and the Transfiguration Church, both of which were built on the orders of Tsar Alexis in the 1650s.
To the left of the belfry is another, smaller, refectory which is attached to the Trinity Gate-Church, which was also constructed in the 1650s on the orders of Tsar Alexis who made it his own family church. The church is elaborately decorated with colourful trims and underneath the archway is a beautiful 19th century fresco.
Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral
The Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral is the oldest building in the monastery and among the oldest buildings in the Moscow Region. It was built between 1404 and 1405 during the lifetime of St Sabbas and using the funds of Prince Yury of Zvenigorod. The white-stone cathedral is a standard four-pillar design with a single golden dome. After the death of St Sabbas he was interred in the cathedral and a new altar dedicated to him was added.
Under the reign of Tsar Alexis the cathedral was decorated with frescoes by Stepan Ryazanets, some of which remain today. Tsar Alexis also presented the cathedral with a five-tier iconostasis, the top row of icons have been preserved.
Tsaritsa's Chambers
The Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral is located between the Tsaritsa's Chambers of the left and the Palace of Tsar Alexis on the right. The Tsaritsa's Chambers were built in the mid-17th century for the wife of Tsar Alexey - Tsaritsa Maria Ilinichna Miloskavskaya. The design of the building is influenced by the ancient Russian architectural style. Is prettier than the Tsar's chambers opposite, being red in colour with elaborately decorated window frames and entrance.
At present the Tsaritsa's Chambers houses the Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum. Among its displays is an accurate recreation of the interior of a noble lady's chambers including furniture, decorations and a decorated tiled oven, and an exhibition on the history of Zvenigorod and the monastery.
Palace of Tsar Alexis
The Palace of Tsar Alexis was built in the 1650s and is now one of the best surviving examples of non-religious architecture of that era. It was built especially for Tsar Alexis who often visited the monastery on religious pilgrimages. Its most striking feature is its pretty row of nine chimney spouts which resemble towers.
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In 1938, it was granted town status. [citation needed]Administrative and municipal status. Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is incorporated as Elektrostal City Under Oblast Jurisdiction—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, Elektrostal City Under Oblast Jurisdiction is incorporated as Elektrostal Urban Okrug.
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