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The St Sabbas of Storozhev Monastery is one of dozens of abbeys founded through the efforts and initiatives of the disciples of St Sergius of Radonezh. Yet, while part of this tradition, the cloister...
The Pskov Monastery of the Caves occupies a special place in the hearts of Russians. One of the country’s oldest cloisters, it is often called a lavra – a special term for the highest ranking monaste...
The Ipatiev Monastery is one of the country’s oldest and most famous cloisters. It stands on the bank of the River Kostroma, opposite the city of Kostroma in central Russia. The Ipatiev Monastery was...
The St Daniel Monastery was founded by Prince Daniel of Moscow, the youngest son of St Alexander Nevsky, in honour of his celestial namesake, St Daniel the Stylite. The exact date of the establishmen...
The Optina Hermitage of the Presentation of the Virgin lies approximately two miles from the town of Kozelsk in Kaluga Region. Although the cloister stands on the bank of the River Zhizdra, surrounde...
The Iviron Monastery stands on an island in Lake Valdai, two miles from the town of the same name in the east of Novgorod Region. While the cloister may have been founded long after the other famous ...
Balaam is an island in the very north of Lake Ladoga, fourteen miles from the mainland and not far from the Finnish border. This is the home of a famous monastery, which became the spiritual centre o...
The Yellow Water Monastery of the Trinity was founded by St Macarius in 1434 on the left bank of the River Volga, not far from the Yellow Lake. In 1439, the cloister was burnt to the ground by Tatars...
The St Simon Monastery in Moscow was founded in 1379 at the time of St Alexius the Metropolitan. The first abbot was a nephew of St Sergius of Radonezh called Theodore, who later became the confessor...
The Convent of the Ascension was one of the oldest in Moscow. The cloister stood inside the Kremlin, next to the Saviour (Spassky) Gates, beside the Monastery of the Miracle. The convent is believed ...