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The Skete of St. Andrew
The Skete of St. Andrew of the St Alexander Nevsky Lavra (Agafon Meadow near the village of Korkino, the Vsevolozhsk District). "The Road of Death" or "The Road of Grief" was laid in these places during WWII and soldiers went to fight... more


The Skete of St. Seraphim
The Skete of St. Seraphim of the St Alexander Nevsky Lavra, it was placed in the Luga Uyezd, at 13 kilometre from the station of Preobrazhenskaya (now it is the settlement of Tolmachevo). In 1901 the Lavra bought the Zacherenye country estate ... more


The Staraya Ladoga Monastery of St. Simeon
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The Tvorozhkovsky Monastery
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The Vasilyevsky Monastery
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Tikhvin Convent of the Presentation in the Temple
The Tikhvin Convent of the Presentation in the Temple (the town of Tikhvin). It was founded on the right bank of the Tikhvinka River, probably like the Dormition Convent, according to the order of Ivan the Terrible in 1560. The wooden walls were... more


Tikhvin Conversation Monastery of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker
The Tikhvin Conversation Monastery of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (the town of Tikhvin). It is the first monastery within the boundariests of the contemporary town of Tikhvin. It was founded between 1510 and 1515baccording to the order of Great... more


Tikhvin Dormition Convent, the
The Tikhvin Dormition Convent (the town of Tikhvin). The parish wooden church of the Dormition of the Mother of God was built on the Tikhvinka River bank in the memory of the Finding of the miracle-working icon of the Mother of God the Hodigitria... more


Vokhonovsky Convent of St. Mary Magdalene
The Vokhono Convent of St. Mary-Magdalene (the village of Vokhonovo, the Gatchina district). In January 1883 the landowner A.P. Platonov and his daughter Natalya Aleksandrovna presented 6.5 desyatinas (about 18 acres) of forests to the... more


Vvedeno - Oyatsky (Vvedeno-Ostrovsky) Monastery, the
The Oyat Monastery of the Presentation in the Temple (Vvedeno-Ostrovsky - The Island Monastery of the Presentation in the Temple) (the Railway Station of Oyat, the Lodeynoye Pole district). It is located on left bank in the Oyat River, about 186... more


Zelenets Holy Trinity Monastery, the
The Zelenets Monastery of the Holy Trinity (the railway Station Zelenets, the Volkhov district). It was founded between 1565 and 1570 by Venerable Martiriy, a monk of the Tikhvin Monastery, on Green island among swamps. The first churches , the... more

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