bobsville adventure magazine
volume one, issue two.
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Lodyas from Novgorod sailed into the Arctic Ocean (called in olden days the "Breathing Sea") and, by the end of the twelfth century, Novgorod governed the Northern colonies of Perm, Pechora and the Yurga region in the northern Urals. Explorers from Novgorod entered the White Sea, which they called the "Cold Sea," through the Severnaya Dvina estuary and founded the first Russian settlements along its coast. The hardy pioneers who settled in this region came to be known as the Pomors, meaning "[dwellers] by the sea." The Grand Duchy of Moscow had, meanwhile, been gaining in strength and growing in territory. Yet, with all its territory, Moscow had no maritime port. Moscow's conquest of Novgorod in 1478 ended the trade monopoly of the Novgorod merchants and the Republic of Novgorod was reduced to a vassal state of the Grand Duchy of Moscow. In the late 1600s Peter the Great built St. Petersburg a hundred miles North of Novgorod and moved the capitol there from Moscow, that was the final blow to Novgorod. In all the wars from the middle ages to now Novgorod suffered little damage until world war two. This city is one place you should visit if you travel to Europe. Novgorod has much of it ancient architecture still preserved to this very day.
Novgorod today
Part of the walls of the city castle (Detinets) of Novgorod
The city castle (Detinets) of Novgorod
