Ouglitch
Ouglitch (У́глич) is a small town of Russia cash 37.000 inhabitants (in 2007), province of Iaroslavl, on the the Volga in the north of Moscow. Its existence is mentioned since the year 937.
The city has a factory of clock industry, an hydroelectric station, and a railway station. It presents also good examples of traditional Russian architecture and several churches, some in the course of restoration.
The May 25th 1591, the tsarévitch Dmitri, still child, was assassinated there in not elucidated circumstances, some supporting which it would have committed suicide during an epileptic fit while a legend allots this death to Boris Godounov. This event was for Russia the beginning of the period known as of the “time of the disorders” during which the capacity was bitterly disputed before the accession with the throne of the family Romanov.
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