Historical and Artistic Museum in Kirzhach
In 1923, the residents of Kirzhach made their first attempt to create a folk museum. At that time, the Kirzhach Historical and Domestic Museum was located in the former Annunciation Cathedral, and its exhibition consiste…
St. Nicholas Church on Selivanova Mountain in Kirzhach
According to legend, the site where the Nikolsky temple now stands on Selivanova Mountain was first visited by St. Sergius of Radonezh. However, the first written mention of the church appears only in the 1562 Census Boo…
Church of the Ascension of the Lord at Borisoglebsky Cemetery
The church is first mentioned in the patriarchal records of 1654. There is no information about whether a temple existed here before that time. In 1713, a new wooden church was built on the site of the Borisoglebsk churc…
Holy Sorrows Women's Monastery in Khmelevo
The Sorrows community in the Pokrovsky district was founded in 1902 in the village of Khmelevo, located in the Funikovskaya volost by the Sheredar River. Ivan Mikhailovich Meshkov, a native of these places, a second-guil…
Exaltation of the Holy Cross Women's Monastery in Snegirëvo
The Exaltation Church became the central element of the estate ensemble of the princes Saltykovs from the early 19th century. The church was built over seven years and was consecrated in 1813, becoming the burial place f…
Pokrovskaya Vvedenskaya Island Women's Monastery
The history of the Vvedenskaya monastery begins with the abolition of the Antoniev desert in the early 18th century, a small monastery around which the settlement of Pokrov already existed. Monks Sergey and Timofey, havi…
Cathedral of the Introduction of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The first wooden church of the Vvedenskaya Island Monastery was built from 1709 to 1710 on cleared land. Monks Sergey and Timofey, having constructed a cell and chapel on the island, appealed to Tsar Peter Alekseevich fo…
Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in the Pokrovsk Women's Monastery
In September 1876, the abbot of the monastery became Hieromonk Joseph. He decided to rebuild and expand the dilapidated St. Nicholas Church, which was erected in the third quarter of the 18th century under Hieromonk Cleo…
Bell Tower of the Protection of the Holy Virgin Island Women's Monastery
In 2001, a brick bell tower was built on the site of the destroyed belfry, equipped with new bells. Some of them were made in the workshop of the Shuvalov brothers in Romanov-Borisoglebsk, now known as Tutaev, while othe…
The Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos (Nikitsky) in Kaluga
The stone temple was built by parishioners in 1685. Previously, there was a wooden church on this site in honor of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary with an altar dedicated to Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker.
In 1649, the…
