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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 919 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KOSTROMA , a See also:

town of See also:Russia, See also:capital of the See also:government of the same name, 230 M. N.N.E. of See also:Moscow and 57 M. E.N.E. from Yaroslav, on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Volga, at the mouth of the navigable Kostroma, with suburbs on the opposite See also:side of the Volga. Pop. (1897), 41,268. Its glittering gilded cupolas make it a conspicuous feature in the landscape as it climbs up the terraced See also:river bank. It is one of the See also:oldest towns of Russia, having been founded in 1152. Its fort was often the See also:refuge of the princes of Moscow during See also:war, but the town was plundered more than once by the See also:Tatars. The See also:cathedral, built in 1239 and rebuilt in 1773, is situated in the kreml, or citadel, and is a See also:fine See also:monument of old See also:Russian See also:architecture. In the centre of the town is a monument to the See also:peasant See also:Ivan Susanin and the See also:tsar See also:Michael (1851). The former sacrificed his own See also:life in 1669 by leading the Poles astray in the forests in See also:order to See also:save the life of his own tsar Michael Fedeorovich. On the opposite bank of the Volga, See also:close to the See also:water's edge, stands the monastery of Ipatiyev, founded in 1330, with a cathedral built in 1586, both associated with the See also:election of Tsar Michael (1669).

Kostroma has been renowned since the 16th See also:

century for its See also:linen, which was exported to See also:Holland, and the manufacture of linen and linen-See also:yarn is still kept up to some extent. The town has also See also:cotton-See also:mills, tanneries, saw-mills, an See also:iron-foundry and a See also:machine factory. It carries on an active See also:trade—importing See also:grain, and exporting linen, linen yarn, See also:leather, and especially See also:timber and wooden wares.

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