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| | | | | | | Visiting Yaroslavovo Dvorische (Courtyard)
| | | | | | | | | Medieval Novgorod was divided into the Sophia and the Marketplace sides, which have been preserved to the present day. The Kremlin was the historical center of the Sophia side, while the Marketplace and the residence of Novgorodian princes, transferred here from the Rurik Gorodische by Yaroslav the Wise in the 11th century, became the main point of the Marketplace side.
 
According to the testimony of the Swedish annalist Bilemark, none of the Northern courts could surpass the household of Yaroslav the Wise in opulence and splendour. Here Olaf, a king of Norway, took his refuge; it served as a political shelter for Edwin and Edward, children of an English king Edmund; here a Norwegian prince Herald was brought up.
The Marketplace started at the Great Bridge, which connected it with the Detinets. The banks were lined with a long chain of quays where vessels stood at berth. Shops in the Marketplace were lined in rows. In the 16th century there were 42 such rows trading in fish, bread, leather goods, silver items, icons, etc. Close by, foreign traders positioned their own markets - the Swedish market and the German market.
Veche Square lay between the princes' courtyard and the Marketplace. In 1478 it witnessed a grave event in Novgorod history when the great veche bell, the main symbol of Novgorod's sovereignty, was taken away to Moscow.
The importance of the Yaroslav Dvorische and the Marketplace in the public life of the city required that it be constantly redecorated.
Nowadays this is one of the most beautiful places in Novgorod. Shady avenues, lilac bushes, lawns full of flower beds, a magnificent panorama of the River Volkhov and the Kremlin and, first of all, the ancient architectural monuments, attract thousands of tourists.
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