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Vvedensky Skete in Pribrezhnoe

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The village of Pribrezhnoe is located twenty kilometers from Diveevo and is marked on old maps as Lesozavod. Here lies the former dependency of the Serafimo-Ponetaevsky Monastery, known as the Vvedensky Skete, which is popularly called the Tsar's Skete. This land, previously owned by the royal family, was gifted to the monastery in 1864 by the decree of Emperor Alexander II in gratitude for the healing of his daughter, Grand Duchess Maria.

The skete was surrounded by high stone walls reminiscent of the Kremlin, with niches for icons and parables about the life of Seraphim of Sarov. The corners of the walls were adorned with square towers. On the territory of the skete stood a church in honor of the icon 'The Entry into the Temple of the Mother of God' with a bell tower connecting it to the baptistery. The skete housed up to 50 residents living in twelve cells resembling small houses. The 'Tsar's Skete' accepted nuns from noble and royal families, as well as former royal attendants and nurses. When a novice was tonsured as a nun, there was a tradition to plant a pine tree, and if the novice was of imperial blood, a fir tree was planted. The tranquility of the nuns was guarded by a Cossack hundred stationed in the village of Koshelikha, 9 km from the skete.

During its existence, the Tsar's Skete was visited by emperors Alexander II, Alexander III, Nicholas II, as well as Empress Alexandra and the royal children: Tsarevich Alexei and the Grand Duchesses Tatiana, Anastasia, Olga, and Maria. To this day, remnants of the Tsar's Skete include the baptistery, which now houses a church, several cells, the graves of the skete's founder, Abbess Alexandra, and other nuns, a well consecrated in 1913 by the blessing of Nicholas II, and a pine alley known as the Mother of God Path. This alley consisted of more than three hundred pines and seventeen firs planted in two rows with a spacing of three meters. Currently, about 200 pines and around a dozen firs remain in the alley. The main attraction of this place is the Seraphim Stones, the Big and Little Bear, located in a forested wilderness.

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Введенский скит в Прибрежном

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