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 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 ...

As Kievan Rus declined after the eleventh century, its south-western territories were gradually absorbed into the kingdom of Poland and the grand duchy of Lithuania. The capital of Rus moved north-ea...

The Tolga Monastery of the Presentation of the Virgin stands on the bank of the River Volga in Yaroslavl. The cloister was founded on the site of a divine vision, witnessed by Bishop Prochoros of Ros...

The Kargopole Monastery of the Transfiguration was founded on the right bank of the River Onega in the late thirteenth century. It was originally named St Bassian’s Hermitage after its founder, St Ba...