Monasteries and Churches

The Holy Kazan Convent in Kolyupanovo is surrounded by birch groves and silence broken only by the sound of wind in the leaves or the singing of birds. To find Kolyupanovo

Once Euphrosinia had been a lady-in-waiting to Catherine II but, having faked her death, she retired from the court and dedicated her life to God. A God's fool with a gift dug a spring and told peo...

The magnificent white temple was built at the end of the 18the century on the banks of the Oka River by one of the local merchants. It is interesting that the name of the architect who built the c...