Yaroslavl Travel Blogs, Travelogues and Travel Journals

    An ongoing work project brought me and some friends back to Yaroslavl in December (2007) for a whirlwind Thursday/Friday trip.  We arrived around 10:00 AM having caught a 6:00 AM train from Moscow.  We stayed one night in the fabulous Pearl Hotel, where I’d stayed before, and then caught the 3:00 PM train back to Moscow on Friday.    During the course of our 37 hour trip we crammed in a bunch of meetings but we did manage to make time to have a bi…

Much prettier than Kostroma, but unfortunately we barely had any time here.  The highlight of the day, for me, was the fact that the symbol of Yaroslavl is the bear - and I love bears. =)  Legend has it that Prince Yaroslav the Wise founded the town.  When he first arrived, he encountered a group of pagans who worshipped bears, and who kept one in a cage for religious purposes.  They set the bear loose on Yaroslav, who killed it because he was so close to God and such a gr…