Volga River · Russia · Kashin
Why is the Monastery called Klobukov? There are several versions of this. First of all, a legend, which tells how a monk klobuk (a headgear) was found there? When Archbishop St. John of Novgorod is fabled to ride a demon to Jerusalem, he lost his klobuk in Kashin. The Saint enjoined to build a monastery where the klobuk was found.
The second ver...
Baltic Sea · Russia · Saint Petersburg
By order of Empress Elizabeth I, on 15 July 1759, a stone church was laid in the marine regimental court, on the bank of the Kryukov Canal. It was constructed for naval men to a design by Savva Chevakinsky, the chief architect of the Admiralty Board. Construction of the temple was finished in 1760, and immediately it became a peculiar ornament to t...
Moscow Oblast · Russia · Kolomna
St. Michael's altar in Kolomna appeared long ago, approximately in the mid 14th century.
By the 16th century, it turned into a complex of two temples: the Church of the Archangel Michael's Miracle at Chonae and St. Michael's Cathedral. By that time, a wooden wall of the Kolomna Kremlin had already had the Mihaelovskie Gates between Marinkina and...