As you cross the bridge over the Kamenka it is worth remembering that a rampart with a wooden stockade once ran along the left bank. On the left stands the delightful church of St. Cosmas and St. Damian beauti­fully situated on a sandy bank at a sharp bend in the river. This church, restored in 1960 by R. S. Kuznetsov, was erected in 1725 on the site of the second oldest monastery in Suzdal, the Monastery of St. Cosrna and St. Damian. It was built, however, entirely intejje spirit of the seventeenth century, a fact which can be seen from its attractive asymmetrical composition. The simple, cube-shaped, single-domed body of the church adjoined on one corner by a slender bell-tower in the form of an octagon on a square base, similar to the bell-tower of the Church of St. Nicholas in design but very austere and almost completely devoid of decora­tion. The arches of the bell-tier are capped by small ogee-shaped coverings above which rises a narrow tent-shaped spire with slit windows and a minute dome. Standing next to the plain cube of the church the bell-tower looks particularly tall and light. This charming ensemble was completed by the addition of a chapel with a slender dome, adjoining the south wall of the church. The buildings were originally surrounded by a stone wall with a flight of steps in line with the centre of the bell-tower leading down to the river. The ensemble must have looked like a little town behind its stone walls. It is particularly attractive on a clear day when you can see its gleaming white reflection in the river below.