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Alexander Nevsky Lavra
ALEXANDER NEVSKY LAVRA, located at 1 Alexander Nevsky Square. The monastery dedicated to the Holy Trinity and St. Alexander Nevsky. It was founded in 1710 by Tsar Peter the Great at the confluence of the Chernaya River (today the Monastyrka River)
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Holy Trinity & St. Sergius Hermitage
HOLY TRINITY & ST. SERGIUS HERMITAGE, a seaside Holy Trinity & St. Sergius Hermitage, located at 15 Peterburgskoe Highway. A monastery founded in 1732 by Archimandrite Varlaam (Vysotsky) on the 19th verst of the Peterhof highway on the location of a
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Metochion of Kiev Pechersk Lavra
METOCHION OF KIEV PECHERSK LAVRA, located at 27 Lieutenant Schmidt Embankment, an architectural monument. It was built in 1895-1900 and decorated in the Russian style (architect V. A. Kosyakov; see The Kosyakov family) for the Kiev Pechersk Lavra
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Metochion of Konevets Monastery
METOCHION OF KONEVETS MONASTERY. The Neo-Byzantine building erected at Bolshaya Okhta in 1906-08, located at 21 Sredneokhtinsky Avenue (architect N.N. Nikonov), included a three-aisle Holy Assumption Church built in the Russian style
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Metochion of the Holy Assumption Monastery in Staraya Ladoga
METOCHION OF THE HOLY ASSUMPTION MONASTERY IN STARAYA LADOGA, located at 29/1 Staropetergofsky Avenue. An architectural monument. A piece of land for the metochion was bought in 1902, when a wooden Holy Assumption chapel was erected
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Metochions (entry)
METOCHIONS of monasteries and eparchies of the Russian Orthodox Church. In 1715, by order of Tsar Peter the Great, the metochions of St. Sergius Trinity Monastery (from 1744
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Monasteries (entry)
MONASTERIES, there were four monasteries in Petrograd (two women’s convents and two men’s monasteries) by 1917, and 42 metochions, which functioned according to monastery regulations
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Novodevichy Convent
NOVODEVICHY CONVENT OF HOLY RESURRECTION, located at 100 Moskovsky Avenue. An architectural monument. It was established in 1845 by order of Emperor Nicholas I, who decided to recreate the abolished Smolny Convent on a new location
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St. John Convent
ST. JOHN CONVENT, located at 45 Karpovka River Embankment. Established by St. John of Kronstadt in 1900 and dedicated to the Venerable St. John of Rila as a metochion of the female community in honour of John the Theologian in the village of Sura in
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