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Associate Professor Yujie Zhu

Areas of expertise

• Heritage Tourism, Visitor And Audience Studies 430207
• Intangible Heritage 430208
• Critical Heritage, Museum And Archive Studies 430202
• Social And Cultural Anthropology 440107

Research interests

With a background in anthropology and a focus on critical heritage studies, my research explores the cultural politics of the past within diverse heritage and memory spaces. This includes the nature of state-society relationships, the practice of local governance and social cohesion, the impact of heritage tourism, the politics of remembering and forgetting, and the interplay between heritage, conflict and peace-building.

My work is widely published and highly cited; the author or editor of 8 books and more than 60 peer reviewed academic articles, book chapters, and policy reports. (Google scholar counts 1610 citations, H-index 18, i10-index 24). Recent books include China's Heritage through History (Routlege 2024),  Heritage Tourism (Cambridge, 2021), Heritage Politics in China (Routledge, 2020, co-authored with Christina Maags) and Heritage Romantic Consumption in China (Amsterdam 2018). My research has won ‘Best Paper’ awards from global academic societies including the International Sociology Association RC50 (2011).

My work has attracted competitive funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC), UNESCO, the German Research Foundation (DFG), the European Union Leonardo Program, and the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Currently, I am the Chief Investigator for the ARC Discovery project 'Memory Politics in Modern China' (2023-2025).

I completed my PhD in Anthropology at Heidelberg University, Germany, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Australian Centre on China in the World, ANU. I have worked at the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) in Madrid and the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) before starting my academic career.

I was elected as the vice-president (Communication) of the International Association of Critical Heritage Studies (2014-2020)   and Deputy-chair of Anthropology Tourism Committee of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (2013-2021). Now I serve as the Editorial Board member of  Cultural Geographies,   Journal of Heritage Tourism, and Journal of Anthropological Research,  and an expert member of ICH Committee of International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS).

From 2022 to 2024, I have served as a member of ANU University Academic Board and University Research Committee (representing the Academic Board). 

In June-Dec, 2024, I am a visiting fellow at Humboldt University, Germany. 

HDR and Teaching:

My teaching focuses on cultivating critical thinking to address social and cultural changes. I was awarded a Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy in 2020, followed by the 2023 CASS Excellence in Ph.D. Supervision Award, both recognising excellence in innovative teaching and HDR mentorship

I lead an international MA program on Heritage Tourism Management in collaboration with CBE. Within the program, I organise an annual education program in collaboration with GLAM sectors in Canberra, focused on incorporating Indigenous Knowledge into sustainable development. Additionally, I provide annual cultural orientations for new MA and HDR students, with a particular emphasis on fostering cultural awareness of Indigenous knowledge.

Researcher's projects

Heritage and Tourism

This project examines the key political and ethical issues that emerge through heritage tourism as one of the fastest-growing forms in the global tourism industry.

Yujie Zhu. 2021.  Heritage Tourism: From Problems to Possibilites . Cambridge University Press

Yujie Zhu, 2018.  Heritage and Romantic Consumption in China . Leiden: Amsterdam University Press

Heritage and Memory Politics

What kinds of narratives of the past are selected and interpreted for public display? How and why does the state turn historic events into ‘sites of memory’ for commemoration? 

Yujie Zhu and Christina Maags. 2020.  Heritage Politics in China: The Power of the Past . London: Routledge

Mace Jessica and Yujie Zhu, Eds. 2021.  Notions of Heritage . Presses de l'Université du Québec

Tuuli Lahdesmaki, Suzie Thomas and Yujie Zhu. Eds. 2019.  Politics of Scale: New Directions in Critical Heritage Studies . Oxford:Berghahn Books

Lucas Lixinski, Yujie Zhu Eds. 2024. Heritage, Conflict, and Peace-Building . Routledge

Heritage and Religion 

This project analyses the socio-cultural and political consequences of heritage making of religious sites. Does heritage serve as a new tool for the state to control and regulate religious spaces? Or does heritage offer a fertile ground for religious revival? Does the heritage industry engender secularization and a loss of religious efficacy? Or do such commercial practices lead to innovation in religious-spiritual life?

Michael Rowlands, Shuli Wang and Yujie Zhu. Eds 2020.  Heritage and Religion in East Asia . London: Routledge

Current student projects

As the recipient of the CASS Excellence in PhD Supervision Award (2023), I am presently supervising PhD students working on the following topics:

·     Xiaochun Ma (2024-) Heritage Education in Modern China  (Primary Supervisor)

·       Madeleine Tan (2021-) Heritage Tourism in Greek (Primary Supervisor)

·      Karma Kong (2020-) The Politic of Memory in Post-industrial Japan (Primary Supervisor)

·       Alex McCosker (2019-) A history of pilgrimage to Kokoda and Papua New Guinea. (Associate Supervisor)

·       Yu-ting Lin (2018-) Mining development and social impact on Taiwan indigenous peoples (Associate Supervisor)

Completions

·      Junmin Liu (2020-2023) Heritage and homemaking of Yi migrant workers in Shenzhen, China  (Primary Supervisor)

·      Hao Zheng (2018-2023) Cultural Urban landscape in Chinese Towns (Panel Chair)

·      Wenzhuo Zhang (2018-2023) Sustainable Management of Chinese Historic Urban Centres with Colonial Backgrounds (Panel Chair)

·       Jieyi Xie (2015-2021) The Silk Roads or Economic Belt: An Analysis of the Interaction Between China’s World Heritage and its Economic and Political Ambitions (Associate Supervisor)

·       Shengjin Xie (2015-2020) Pursuing good life in this world: the aspiration of Daoist clerics in Longhu Shan, China (Associate Supervisor)

·       Yun Zhou (2015-2019) Constructing a Divine Domesticity: Woman’s Messenger (1912-1951) and Her Republican Dreamers (Associate Supervisor)

Publications

• Zhu, Y 2023, 'Memory, homecoming and the politics of diaspora tourism in China', Tourism Geographies, 25. pp. 95-112.
• Lee, H, Sørensen, M & Zhu, Y 2023, 'The UNESCO Memory of the World Programme and claims for recognition of atrocities: The nominations of Documents of Nanjing Massacre and Voices of the 'Comfort Women'', Memory Studies, vol. 26, no. 4.
• Yan, W, Liu, J & Zhu, Y 2023, 'Honeymoon Tourism as Romantic Consumption in China', Via At: international interdisciplinary review of tourism, vol. 24.
• Zhu, Y & González Martínez, P 2022, 'Heritage, values and gentrification: the redevelopment of historic areas in China', International Journal of Heritage Studies, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 476-494.
• Zhu, Y 2022, 'The Ladder of Heritage Interpretation', in Neil A. Silberman (ed.), World Heritage: 50 Years and Moving Forward , Chae Su-hee (Director General, WHIPIC), International Centre for the Interpretation and Presentation of World Heritage Sites under the auspi, pp. 102-123.
• Zhu, Y 2022, 'Hot interpretations of difficult heritage: the Memorial Hall of the Nanjing Massacre in China', Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 32-44.
• Zhu, Y 2022, 'The Show Must Go On: Livestreaming Intangible Cultural Heritage in China during Covid-19', in Linda Jaivin AND Esther Sunkyung Klein WITH Sharon Strange (ed.), CONTRADICTION , ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 178-183.
• Zhu, Y 2021, Heritage Tourism: From Problems to Possibilities , Cambridge University Press, UK.
• Zhu, Y & Liu, J 2021, 'Cultural Reproduction: Ethnic Festivals as Intangible Cultural Heritage in China', Loisir et Societe, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 415-428.
• Zhu, Y, Wang, S & Rowlands, M 2021, 'Introduction: Heritage and religion in East Asia', in S-L Wang, M Rowlands & Y Zhu (ed.), Heritage and Religion in East Asia , Routledge, United Kingdom, pp. 1-12.
• Zhu, Y 2021, 'Ethnic religion after disasters: Intangible Cultural Heritage in China', in S-L Wang, M Rowlands & Y Zhu (ed.), Heritage and Religion in East Asia , Routledge, United Kingdom, pp. 88-102.
• Mace, J & Zhu, Y 2021, 'Introduction: Notions of Heritage', in Jessica Mace and Yujie Zhu (ed.), Notions of Heritage , Presses de l'Universite du Quebec, Quebec, pp. 1-9.
• Zhu, Y & Maags, C 2020, Heritage Politics in China: The Power of the Past , Routledge, London.
• Nakano, R & Zhu, Y 2020, 'Heritage as soft power: Japan and China in international politics', International Journal of Cultural Policy, vol. 26, no. 7, pp. 869-881.
• Zhu, Y 2020, 'The Concept and Practice of Cultural Heritage in China', Ethnic Art (Minzu Yishu) , vol. 3, pp. 97-105.
• Zhu, Y 2020, 'Heritage and tourism in China: challenges and critical approach', in Maria Gravari-Barbas (ed.), A Research Agenda for Heritage Tourism , Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 85-100.
• Zhu, Y 2020, 'Heritage and Religion in China', in Stephan Feuchtwang (ed.), Handbook on Religion in China , Edward Elgar Publishing, United Kingdom, pp. 96-108.
• Zhu, Y 2020, 'Between State and Society: Heritage Politics in Urban China', in Sonia Lam-Knott, Creighton Connolly & Kong Chong Ho (ed.), Post-Politics and Civil Society in Asian Cities: Spaces of Depoliticization , Routledge, New York, United States, pp. 93-105.
• Zhu, Y 2019, 'Politics of Scale: Cultural Heritage in China ', in Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Yujie Zhu & Suzie Thomas (ed.), Politics of Scale: New Directions in Critical Heritage Studies , Berghahn Books, New York, pp. 21-35.
• Lahdesmaki, T, Zhu, Y & Thomas, S 2019, 'Introduction: Heritage and Scale', in Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Yujie Zhu & Suzie Thomas (ed.), Politics of Scale: New Directions in Critical Heritage Studies , Berghahn Books, New York, pp. 1-20.
• Zhu, Y & Yang, Y 2019, 'Time Travelling to the Ancient Capital of China: A Case Study of Xian Heritage and Urban Renewal', Journal of Xuzhou Institute of Technology(Social Sciences Edition), vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 1-7.
• Zhu, Y 2019, Book Review 'Curating Revolution: Politics on Display in Mao's China', by Denise Y. Ho, The China Journal, vol. 81, pp. 214-216.
• Zhu, Y 2018, 'Lifestyle mobility: shifting conception of home in modern China', International Journal of Tourism Anthropology, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 357-374.
• Zhu, Y 2018, Heritage and Romantic Consumption in China , Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam.
• Zhu, Y 2018, 'Uses of the past: negotiating heritage in Xi'an', International Journal of Heritage Studies, Vol 24, No 2, pp. 181-192
• Zhu, Y 2018, 'A Shared Destiny: Dungans and The New Silk Road', in Jane Golley and Linda Jaivin (ed.), The China Story Yearbook 2017: Prosperity , ANU Press, Acton, Australia.
• Zhu, Y 2018, 'Lifestyle mobility: Shifting conception of home in modern China', International Journal of Tourism Anthropology, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 357-374.
• Zhu, Y, Jin, L & Graburn, N 2017, 'Domesticating Tourism Anthropology in China', American Anthropologist, vol. 119, no. 4, pp. 730-735pp.
• Zhu, Y & Yang, Y 2017, 'Travelling to the Past: Xi'an and the Tang Imperial City', in Leanne White (ed.), Commercial Nationalism and Tourism: Selling the National Story , Channel View Publications, Bristol, United Kingdom, pp. 64-74.
• Zhu, Y 2017, 'Regulating Old Towns: The Battle for the Tourist Yuan', in Jane Golley; Linda Jaivin; Luigi Tomba (ed.), China Yearbook 2016: Control , ANU Press, Australia, pp. 138-142pp.
• Zhu, Y 2016, 'Heritage Making in Lijiang: Governance, Reconstruction and Local Naxi Life', in Christoph Brumann & David Berliner (ed.), World Heritage on the Ground: Ethnographic Perspectives , Berghahn Books, New York, pp. 78-96.
• Zhu, Y 2016, 'Authenticity and Heritage Conservation in China: Translation, Interpretation, Practices', in Katharina Weiler, Niels Gutschow (ed.), Authenticity in Architectural Heritage Conservation: Discourses, Opinions, Experiences in Europe, South and East Asia , Springer International Publishing Switzerland, Switzerland, pp. 187-200.
• Zhu, Y 2016, 'Performance, tourism', in Jafar Jafari and Honggen Xiao (ed.), Encyclopedia of Tourism , Springer International Publishing Switzerland, Online, pp. 711-713pp.
• Zhu, Y 2016, 'Book Review 'A Landscape of Travel: The Work of Tourism in Rural Ethnic China' by Jenny Chio', American Anthropologist, vol. 118, no. 3, pp. 655-656.
• Zhu, Y 2015, 'Cultural effects of authenticity: contested heritage practices in China', International Journal of Heritage Studies, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 594-608.
• Zhu, Y & Salazar, N 2015, 'Heritage and Tourism', in Lynn Meskell (ed.), Global Heritage: A Reader , Wiley Blackwell, Chichester, UK, pp. 240-258.
• Zhu, Y & Hua, Y 2015, 'Transforming Tradition: Performing Wedding Ritual in Modern China', in Jennifer Laing and Warwick Frost (ed.), Rituals and Traditional Events in the Modern World , Routledge, Abingdon and New York, pp. 51-66.
• Zhu, Y 2015, 'The Construction and Introspection of the Discourse System of Inheritance: Three Cultural Heritage Practices', in Yu Xinjian (ed.), Cultural Heritage Research , Sichuan University Press, Chengdu, China, pp. 19-26.
• Zhu, Y 2015, 'Performing Heritage: Authenticity in Tourism', Journal of Southwest University for Nationalities, vol. 2015, no. 6, pp. 1-9.
• Zhu, Y 2014, 'Heritage and Tourism in Global Discourse', Journal of Southwest University for Nationalities, vol. 7, no. 2014, pp. 7-13.
• Smith, L and Zhu, Y. 2014, 'Discourse and Process : A Perspective of Critical Heritage Studies', Journal of Baise University, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 77-82. (published in Mandarin)
• Zhu, Y & Li, N 2013, 'Groping for Stones to Cross the River: Governing Heritage in Emei', in Blumenfield T, Silverman H (ed.), Cultural Heritage Politics in China , Springer New York, New York USA, pp. 51-71.
• Zhu, Y 2012, 'Performing heritage: Rethinking authenticity in tourism', Annals of Tourism Research, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 1495-1513.
• Zhu, Y. 2012 What Can We Bring to the World? [Review of the article "What Marco Polo Forgot: Chinese Contemporary Art Reconfigures the Global", by Aihwa Ong]. Current Anthropology, 53 (4), 489-490.
• Zhu, Y 2012, 'Shifting images: The World Heritage City Lijiang, China', Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, vol. 67, no. April 2012, pp. 58-68.
• Zhu, Y 2012, 'Authenticity in heritage conservation: Interpretation and local practice', Guizhou Social Sciences (Guizhou Shehui Kexue), vol. 268, no. 4, pp. 18-24.
• Zhu, Y 2012, 'When the Global Meets the Local in Tourism-Cultural Performances in Lijiang as Case Studies', Journal of China Tourism Research, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 302-319.
• Zhu, Y 2012, 'Tourism gaze and urban imaginaries in China', Tourism Tribune, vol. 11, no. 2012, pp. 14-23.
• Zhu, Y 2011, 'Some thoughts on comparison of heritage conservation in historic cities in China and the West: A transcultural perspective', Southeast Culture, vol. 221, no. 3, pp. 118-122.
• Zhu, Y 2009, 'Enhancing Inter-Agency and Stakeholder Coordination for Joint Action in Sustainable Management at World Heritage Sites', Sustainable Tourism Management at World Heritage Sites- Enhancing Interagency and Stakeholder Coordination for Joint Action , ed. Gabor Vereczi, Zhu Yujie, Wang Shuo, UNTWO, Madrid Spain.

Projects and Grants

Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.

• Local Remembering and National Forgetting: Memory Politics in Modern China (Primary Investigator)
• Heritage-making of war memories: Remembering Nanjing Massacre in nation-building (Primary Investigator)

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ANTH6025  Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective

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SOCY6065  Excessive Appetites: Sociocultural Perspectives on Addiction and Drug Use

ANTH6136  Piracy: Property Wars from the High Seas to Anonymous 

BIAN6124  Evolution and Human Behaviour

CHMD8021  Indigenous Medicines, Health and Healing

CHMD8022  Biotechnologies in Biomedicine

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SOCY6170  Sociology of Emergent Media

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Anthropology is the study of contemporary human cultural lives. This degree centres on anthropology’s ethnographic approach, which is employed to understand how people live their lives, on their own terms. Such an approach enables anthropologists to examine key global challenges and events, like climate change and xenophobia, as well as how government policies, technologies, and products and services are incorporated into people’s lives. Designed for those whose work or interest is in understanding people in specific contexts, this program equips students with the necessary ethnographic skills and opportunities to undertake analysis of human lives, and to make cross-cultural comparisons.  

Why study anthropology at the ANU? The Master of Anthropology at the ANU is a highly sought-after program that places very strong emphasis on anthropological theory and methods with the intention of turning out graduates ready to work in applied research contexts in the public and corporate sectors. The program provides students with central skills in anthropological and ethnographic theory and methods, which includes training in research and analysis, a broad suite of optional language training, field-schools, internship placements as well as a thesis option. We offer graduates comprehensive training in ethnographic methods and anthropological theory, followed by thematised progression in accordance with the student's interests and future intentions for work or study.

Graduates from ANU have been rated as Australia's most employable graduates and among the most sought after by employers worldwide.

The latest Global Employability University Ranking, published by the Times Higher Education, rated ANU as Australia's top university for getting a job for the fourth year in a row.

• understand when and how to apply ethnographic research techniques;
• select from a range of anthropological methods those most suitable to a particular research or policy problem;
• demonstrate knowledge of the history of anthropological theory and the different ethnographic methods associated with different periods;
• articulate and demonstrate the value of conducting ethnographic work in a given context;
• design ethnographically based programs of investigation ready for application in a given field or work or study.
• apply anthropological knowledge to cross-cultural work environments and problem solving. 

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• Kelsie Johnston from Services Australia, to study a Master of Anthropology and Planetary Futures through the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
• Dolly Nye from the Department of Health and Aged Care, to study a Master of Project Management through the ANU College of Business and Economics
• Jami-Lee Saxon from Services Australia, to study a Master of Public Policy through CDU Faculty of Arts and Society.

Dolly Nye recently completed a Graduate Certificate of Management (GCM) at ANU, where she discovered her passion for learning and professional development. She is already thinking about how she will be able to apply the Master of Project Management to her work at the Department of Health and Aged Care.

“I want to undertake further studies to become a better decision maker and strategic thinker," Dolly said.

"These studies will develop my skills to help me facilitate change at work, particularly for how the department can support access, language and the provision of culturally safe care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the aged care sector.

“As a Pat Turner Scholar, I hope to build on my learnings from the graduate certificate to develop my skills and knowledge in finding strategic solutions to these complex issues.”

The Sir Roland Wilson Foundation has been offering Pat Turner scholarships since 2018.

The Foundation has now awarded 94 scholarships, including 33 Pat Turner scholarships to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander APS employees from 14 agencies.

The Sir Roland Wilson Pat Turner Scholarship is a one-to-three-year, full-pay scholarship for any level of postgraduate study at ANU or CDU for high performing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander APS4 to SES Band 1 APS employees.

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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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Savvino-storozhevsky monastery and museum.

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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