Staritskogo settlement or Staritskiy Kremlin, is a historic center of the medieval Staritsa. It is located on the northwestern outskirts of this city, on a promontory of the left bank of the Volga, where it empties into the river Upper Staritsa.

Starica first time mentioned in chronicles in 1297. In the 12-14 centuries was part of Staritsa Tver land, and in the 15-16 centuries was the center of an independent principality. After his death in 1318 in the Horde Prince of Tver Mikhail Yaroslavich Starica with Mikulin, perforated and Hill moved to second his son Alexander, who in turn passed to his son Vsevolod Staritsa, and only one - his - Ivan Vsevolodovich.

In 1385, after a fire Starica was rebuilt. Moat and powerful shaft protect it from the south. In 1396-1399 years in Staritsa Tver Prince Mikhail Alexandrovich it was erected the first white-stone cathedral in honor of the Archangel Michael. When the prince of Tver Ivan Mikhailovich in 1403 in Staritsa built a stone church in honor of St. Nicholas, which belonged to the pillarless churches.

Since 1468 Starica subordinate to Moscow as a specific principality, which included Vyshgorod, Aleksin, Hill, faith, Lyubutskii. When feudal princes Andrei Ivanovich Staritsa been updated fortifications of the Kremlin.

In 1558 there was built the Cathedral of Sts. And in 1569, disposing of the last Prince of Staritsa, Vladimir Andreyevich, Ivan the Terrible captured the city in the oprichnina. During this period, Staritsa was a large and wealthy city. The bulk of the population lived on the low right bank of the Volga River, directly opposite the Kremlin.

In 1606, 1609 years Starica been the Polish-Lithuanian ruin and then in 1624 there were 64 inhabitants. When Mikhail Fedorovich Starica revived. In 1632 the city was restored fortress, and in 1666 around the perimeter of the Kremlin were built new fortifications, with length of 1, 28 km away.

The first serious excavations in Staritsa settlement were held in 1903, a local amateur archaeologist IP Krylov. The remains of the 16th century Cathedral of Sts studied architects VV Kavelmaherom and MB Chernyshov, in the years 2005-2012 - Salimov AM The scientific study of the settlement began in 1972 Khvorostov EL, since 1979 it has become to be systematic. It has been studied for more than 2 thousand square meters of the cultural layer.

The earliest layers, which are fixed at the Cathedral Square, are 14-15 centuries. Finds and design the rest of the settlement area are, for the most part, to the 17th century. The maximum capacity of the cultural layer is 2-4 m. On the western slope of the settlement, which was inhabited later, it becomes 0, 25 m.

In the late 17th century with the loss of its military value Staritskiy Kremlin gradually emptied and the remains of buildings were dismantled in the late 19th and early 20th centuries the locals.

As a result of the archaeological excavations carried out on the site, it has been found items related to more than 50 categories. This tools and household items, and weapons and equipment of the rider, decoration of glass, ceramics, chess pieces, Kashino, Tver and Moscow coins. Archaeologists have traced all the buildings of the Kremlin's economic and residential 15th to the 17th century.