The church in honor of the holy great martyr Catherine and the holy equal-to-the-apostles prince Vladimir was built in 1830 by V.A. Volotsky, the provincial leader of the nobility, as a family tomb. The small Catherine church-mausoleum, in its architecture, resembles garden-pavilion structures in the style of Russian classicism, which were popular in Russian estates in the first third of the 19th century. The building of the church is designed in the Empire style and represents a single-domed rotunda with two porticoes. Inside, fragments of frescoes have been preserved. Next to the church are the remains of the monastery necropolis, which was significantly damaged during the Soviet era. The monastery cemetery contains the graves of Metropolitan Jonah of Saransk, Archbishop Simon of Vologda and Belozersk, Vologda Vice-Governor A.S. Naryshkin, and other representatives of the clergy and secular nobility, as well as notable Vologda families. During the Soviet era, a symbolic grave of the poet Konstantin Batyschkov, who died in Vologda on July 7, 1855, was restored, but the exact location of his burial has been lost.
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