Usadba

Top choice in Western European Russia


In a quiet residential area that’s still close to the city centre, this cute boutique hotel offers 22 comfortable rooms with good facilities (room 5 has cathedral views). There’s an attached restaurant, where breakfast and other meals are served, as well as a DVD library, pool and small traditional wooden sauna (R800 per hour before 4pm, R1000 per hour after 4pm).


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Western European Russia attractions

2. Korolevsky Bastion

0.45 MILES

By the western fortress walls, this high earth rampart was built by the Poles who captured Smolensk in 1611.

3. Spartak Stadium

0.45 MILES

The Korolevsky Bastion overlooks the Spartak Stadium, which is just outside the fortress walls.

4. Assumption Cathedral

0.47 MILES

Dominating the skyline is this huge green-and-white working cathedral topped by five silver domes. A church has stood here since 1101; this one was built…

5. Peter & Paul Church

0.48 MILES

With obvious Byzantine influences, this red-brick 12th-century chapel (1146) is the oldest in the city and a local icon.

6. Fortress Walls & Around

0.48 MILES

Making a circuit of the restored city walls, long sections of which boast fine towers reminiscent of the Moscow Kremlin, is a pleasant way to pass a warm…

7. Trinity Monastery

0.51 MILES

Much restoration work has been done on this charming, pink-walled convent, which also runs a small orphanage for girls. Donations are welcome.

8. Glinka Garden

0.51 MILES

At the east end of this shady garden with fountains, an 1885 statue of the composer Glinka is surrounded by a fence with excerpts from his opera A Life…