![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1091/jpeg/08t.jpg) Cave Cathedral of Pokrovo Tervenichi Women s Christian Orthodox Monastery. Area of Lodeynoe Pole, Leningrad Region, Russia, August 4, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1091/jpeg/07t.jpg) Interior of a cathedral of Pokrovo Tervenichi Women s Christian Orthodox Monastery. Area of Lodeynoe Pole, Leningrad Region, Russia, August 4, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1091/jpeg/12t.jpg) Pokrovsky Cathedral in Pokrovo Tervenichi Women s Christian Orthodox Monastery. Area of Lodeynoe Pole, Leningrad Region, Russia, August 4, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1091/jpeg/13t.jpg) Entrance of Pokrovo Tervenichi Women s Christian Orthodox Monastery. Area of Lodeynoe Pole, Leningrad Region, Russia, August 4, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1091/jpeg/14t.jpg) Back entrance of Pokrovo Tervenichi Women s Christian Orthodox Monastery. Area of Lodeynoe Pole, Leningrad Region, Russia, August 4, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1091/jpeg/15t.jpg) Back road of Pokrovo Tervenichi Women s Christian Orthodox Monastery. Area of Lodeynoe Pole, Leningrad Region, Russia, August 4, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1091/jpeg/10t.jpg) Cathedrals near Pogostskoe Lake in Pokrovo Tervenichi Women s Christian Orthodox Monastery. Area of Lodeynoe Pole, Leningrad Region, Russia, August 4, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1091/jpeg/11t.jpg) Troitsky chapel bathhouse on Pogostskoe Lake in Pokrovo Tervenichi Women s Christian Orthodox Monastery. Area of Lodeynoe Pole, Leningrad Region, Russia, August 4, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1091/jpeg/06t.jpg) Interior of a cathedral of Vvedeno Oyatsky Women s Christian Orthodox Monastery. Area of Lodeynoe Pole, Leningrad Region, Russia, August 4, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1091/jpeg/05t.jpg) Vvedeno Oyatsky Women s Christian Orthodox Monastery. Area of Lodeynoe Pole, Leningrad Region, Russia, August 4, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1091/jpeg/04t.jpg) Cathedral in Sovkhoz Ilyich, now Vvedeno Oyatsky Christian Orthodox Monastery. Area of Lodeynoe Pole, Leningrad Region, Russia, August 4, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1091/jpeg/17t.jpg) Vepsian Ethnographic Museum in Tervenichi Village. Area of Lodeynoe Pole, Leningrad Region, Russia, August 4, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1091/jpeg/16t.jpg) Folk Museum of Vepsian Culture in Tervenichi Village. Area of Lodeynoe Pole, Leningrad Region, Russia, August 4, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1091/jpeg/18t.jpg) Exhibition of Folk Museum of Vepsian Culture in Tervenichi Village. Area of Lodeynoe Pole, Leningrad Region, Russia, August 4, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1091/jpeg/03t.jpg) Excursion on a shore of Oyat River in Sovkhoz Ilyich, area of Lodeynoe Pole. Leningrad Region, Russia, August 4, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/772/jpeg/06t.jpg) Museum of Orthodox Christian Odessa in Archangel Michael Monastery for women. Odessa, Ukraine, July 2, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/772/jpeg/09t.jpg) Red priest cap in Museum of Orthodox Christian Odessa in Archangel Michael Monastery for women. Odessa, Ukraine, July 2, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/772/jpeg/07t.jpg) Church models in Museum of Orthodox Christian Odessa in Archangel Michael Monastery for women. Odessa, Ukraine, July 2, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/772/jpeg/08t.jpg) Model of Odesskiy Spaso Preobrazhenskiy Sobor church in Museum of Orthodox Christian Odessa in Archangel Michael Monastery for women. Odessa, Ukraine, July 2, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2004/405/jpeg/18t.jpg) A yard inside Pskov-Pechory Monastery. Pechory, Russia, August 8, 2004
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2004/405/jpeg/19t.jpg) Interior of a church of Pskov-Pechory Monastery. Pechory, Russia, August 8, 2004
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2004/405/jpeg/20t.jpg) Blizhniye ("nearby") caves of Pskov-Pechory Monastery. Pechory, Russia, August 8, 2004
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2004/405/jpeg/16t.jpg) Pskov-Pechory Monastery of the caves, view from a tourist overlook. Pechory, Russia, August 8, 2004
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2004/405/jpeg/17t.jpg) Tourists crowding at the gate, under the fortress walls of Pskov-Pechory Monastery. Pechory, Russia, August 8, 2004
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/484/jpeg/14t.jpg) A cathedral in Uspensky Monastery at evening. Tikhvin, Leningrad Region, Russia, December 25, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/484/jpeg/05t.jpg) A cathedral in Antoniev-Dymsky Monastery near Tikhvin, Leningrad Region. Russia, December 25, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1243/jpeg/20t.jpg) Apple garden and a John Bogoslov Cathedral in John-Bogoslov Cheremenetskiy Monastery, south from Luga. Leningrad Region, Russia, August 24, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/484/jpeg/11t.jpg) Church bells and a cathedral of Uspensky Monastery, view from bell tower. Tikhvin, Leningrad Region, Russia, December 25, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1874/jpeg/09t.jpg) Uspeniya Monastery in Tikhvin. Leningrad Region, Russia, August 6, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2002/294/jpeg/23t.jpg) Interior of Christian Orthodox church in Konevets Monastery, north from Saint Petersburg. Russia, September 8, 2002
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1874/jpeg/13t.jpg) Black cat near Uspeniya Monastery in Tikhvin. Leningrad Region, Russia, August 6, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1874/jpeg/08t.jpg) View of Uspeniya Monastery from Tikhvinka River in Tikhvin. Leningrad Region, Russia, August 6, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1243/jpeg/22t.jpg) Entrance of John-Bogoslov Cheremenetskiy Monastery, south from Luga. Leningrad Region, Russia, August 24, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1243/jpeg/16t.jpg) Cemetery of John-Bogoslov Cheremenetskiy Monastery, south from Luga. Leningrad Region, Russia, August 24, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1874/jpeg/10t.jpg) Uspeniya Cathedral in Tikhvin. Leningrad Region, Russia, August 6, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1243/jpeg/17t.jpg) Cat sitting on ruins in John-Bogoslov Cheremenetskiy Monastery, south from Luga. Leningrad Region, Russia, August 24, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1243/jpeg/18t.jpg) Old stone stairs in John-Bogoslov Cheremenetskiy Monastery, south from Luga. Leningrad Region, Russia, August 24, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1243/jpeg/21t.jpg) Monk s dorms of John-Bogoslov Cheremenetskiy Monastery, south from Luga. Leningrad Region, Russia, August 24, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1874/jpeg/11t.jpg) Altar of Uspeniya Cathedral in Tikhvin. Leningrad Region, Russia, August 6, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1874/jpeg/12t.jpg) Interior of Uspeniya Cathedral in Tikhvin. Leningrad Region, Russia, August 6, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1243/jpeg/26t.jpg) Resurrection Cathedral (1887) in Luga. Leningrad Region, Russia, August 24, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1243/jpeg/14t.jpg) Cat guarding monk s dorms of John-Bogoslov Cheremenetskiy Monastery, south from Luga. Leningrad Region, Russia, August 24, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1243/jpeg/12t.jpg) Backyard of monk s dorms of John-Bogoslov Cheremenetskiy Monastery, south from Luga. Leningrad Region, Russia, August 24, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1243/jpeg/13t.jpg) Entrance of monk s dorms of John-Bogoslov Cheremenetskiy Monastery, south from Luga. Leningrad Region, Russia, August 24, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1243/jpeg/19t.jpg) Old Metal Lathe Enterprise 1330 in John-Bogoslov Cheremenetskiy Monastery, south from Luga. Leningrad Region, Russia, August 24, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1243/jpeg/15t.jpg) Stone arch at main entrance of John-Bogoslov Cheremenetskiy Monastery, south from Luga. Leningrad Region, Russia, August 24, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2002/294/jpeg/29t.jpg) A yard of a Christian Orthodox Rozhdestvensky Cathedral in Konevets Island in Ladozhskoe Lake, north from Saint Petersburg. Russia, September 8, 2002
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2004/405/jpeg/22t.jpg) Interior of orthodox church "Soroka muchenikov Sevastiyskih"(?) near a parking place. Pechory, Russia, August 8, 2004
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1149/jpeg/08t.jpg) Orthodox Church in Kingisepp. Leningrad Region, Russia, February 9, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1149/jpeg/10t.jpg) Orthodox Church in Ivan Gorod Fortress. Leningrad Region, Russia, February 9, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/772/jpeg/05t.jpg) Cathedral of Archangel Michael Monastery for women. Odessa, Ukraine, July 2, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1149/jpeg/11t.jpg) Orthodox Church inside Ivan Gorod Fortress. Leningrad Region, Russia, February 9, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1149/jpeg/14t.jpg) Orthodox cathedrals inside Ivan Gorod Fortress. Leningrad Region, Russia, February 9, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2002/294/jpeg/19t.jpg) A gate of Christian Orthodox monastery on Konevets Island in Ladozhskoe Lake, with a Russian inscription "Close gate firmly. Draught destroys the painting". North from Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 8, 2002
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/484/jpeg/09t.jpg) Uspensky Monastery in Tikhvin, Leningrad Region. Russia, December 25, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/877/jpeg/24t.jpg) Recently renovated orthodox Christian Church Saint Vladimir Cathedral on Lenina Prospekt Street in Kronstadt. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 4, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2001/216/jpeg/37t.jpg) An Orthodox cathedral in Gorodishche Area. Novgorod, Russia, August 1, 2001
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/460/jpeg/12t.jpg) Barracks for monks in Zelenets Monastery. Leningrad Region, Russia, July 23, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/460/jpeg/09t.jpg) A dome of Trinity(?) Church in Zelenets Monastery. Leningrad Region, Russia, July 23, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/460/jpeg/07t.jpg) Tour of a Trinity church in Zelenets Monastery. Leningrad Region, Russia, July 23, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/460/jpeg/05t.jpg) Ruins of monk s barracks in Zelenets Monastery. Leningrad Region, Russia, July 23, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/484/jpeg/12t.jpg) A church window in Uspensky Monastery. Tikhvin, Leningrad Region, Russia, December 25, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2002/291/jpeg/05t.jpg) An Orthodox church in Gornensky Convent for women (the Russian Orthodox Mission of Moscow Patriarchate in Jerusalem). Ein Kerem (western Jerusalem). The Middle East, August 15, 2002
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2001/217/jpeg/02t.jpg) An Orthodox cathedral in Gorodishche Area (Yaroslav Courtyard). Novgorod, Russia, August 1, 2001
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/484/jpeg/03t.jpg) Dorms for monks in Antoniev-Dymsky Monastery near Tikhvin, Leningrad Region. Russia, December 25, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/484/jpeg/13t.jpg) A church and a bell tower in Uspensky Monastery. Tikhvin, Leningrad Region, Russia, December 25, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/460/jpeg/10t.jpg) Trapeznaya (church dining room) in Zelenets Monastery. Leningrad Region, Russia, July 23, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/460/jpeg/06t.jpg) Excursion of ruins of Trinity church in Zelenets Monastery. Leningrad Region, Russia, July 23, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/460/jpeg/08t.jpg) Decaying fresco in Trinity Church in Zelenets Monastery. Leningrad Region, Russia, July 23, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/484/jpeg/10t.jpg) Uspensky Monastery, view from bell tower. Tikhvin, Leningrad Region, Russia, December 25, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/460/jpeg/04t.jpg) Blessing(?) of a believer tourist in Blagoveshcheniya Church in Zelenets Monastery. Leningrad Region, Russia, July 23, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/460/jpeg/11t.jpg) A cook in trapeznaya (church dining room) in Zelenets Monastery. Leningrad Region, Russia, July 23, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/460/jpeg/13t.jpg) Ruins of Trinity Church and bell tower in Zelenets Monastery. Leningrad Region, Russia, July 23, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/460/jpeg/03t.jpg) Nicholas (Nikolsky) monastery and a boat ramp in Staraya Ladoga. Leningrad Region, Russia, July 23, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/465/jpeg/25t.jpg) Cave deposits in Cathedral Cave in Onondaga Cave State Park. Leasburg, Missouri, September 24, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/459/jpeg/24t.jpg) Interior of a recently open church of Uspensky(?) monastery in Old (Staraya) Ladoga. Leningrad Region, Russia, July 23, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/459/jpeg/23t.jpg) Uspensky Cathedral in Old (Staraya) Ladoga. Leningrad Region, Russia, July 23, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1091/jpeg/02t.jpg) Syas River near Sias stroy, view from a window of a tourist bus. Leningrad Region, Russia, August 4, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1724/jpeg/19t.jpg) Cathedral in Rozhdestveno Village. Gatchina District of Leningrad Region, Russia, January 6, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/459/jpeg/25t.jpg) Saint George s cathedral in Old (Staraya) Ladoga. Leningrad Region, Russia, July 23, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/876/jpeg/24t.jpg) Gilded book cover decorated by figures of Christian saints in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 1, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/484/jpeg/06t.jpg) View from a road to Spaso-Troitsky Skit (remote part of a monastery) in village of Senno, near Tikhvin, Leningrad Region. Russia, December 25, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/460/jpeg/02t.jpg) Interior of Nicholas (Nikolsky) Cathedral in Staraya Ladoga. Leningrad Region, Russia, July 23, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2004/401/jpeg/11t.jpg) Trapeznaya (dining facility) in Uspensky Monastery in Old Ladoga (Staraya Ladoga). Leningrad Region, Russia, July 18, 2004
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1721/jpeg/19t.jpg) Cathedral of Troitsy (Trinity) Zhivonachalnoy in Miodushi Village. Lomonosov Region of Leningrad District, Russia, January 4, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2001/216/jpeg/13t.jpg) An Orthodox church remotely seen from entrance of Yuriev Monastery. Novgorod, Russia, August 1, 2001
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2004/401/jpeg/12t.jpg) A gate of Uspensky Monastery from the side of Volkhov River in Old Ladoga (Staraya Ladoga). Leningrad Region, Russia, July 18, 2004
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2015/1633/jpeg/08t.jpg) View of Saviour Transfiguration Cathedral of Valaam Monastery, on Valaam Island. Karelia Region, Russia, July 23, 2015
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2015/1633/jpeg/05t.jpg) Interior of Saviour Transfiguration Cathedral of Valaam Monastery, on Valaam Island. Karelia Region, Russia, July 23, 2015
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2015/1633/jpeg/07t.jpg) Entrance of Saviour Transfiguration Cathedral of Valaam Monastery, on Valaam Island. Karelia Region, Russia, July 23, 2015
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2015/1633/jpeg/06t.jpg) Domed hall of Saviour Transfiguration Cathedral of Valaam Monastery, on Valaam Island. Karelia Region, Russia, July 23, 2015
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2005/484/jpeg/04t.jpg) Dymskoe Lake near Antoniev-Dymsky Monastery near Tikhvin, Leningrad Region. Believers used to swim three times around the cross (either clockwise or counter clockwise) to be healed. Russia, December 25, 2005
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2001/226/jpeg/19t.jpg) An old Orthodox cathedral in Kolomenskoe neighborhood. Moscow, Russia, August 30, 2001
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2004/401/jpeg/06t.jpg) Uspensky Cathedral in Old Ladoga Fortress in Staraya Ladoga. Leningrad Region, Russia, July 18, 2004
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2004/401/jpeg/04t.jpg) Worship in Nicholas (Nikolsky) Cathedral in Old Ladoga (Staraya Ladoga). Leningrad Region, Russia, July 18, 2004
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2004/401/jpeg/07t.jpg) Saint George s Cathedral in Old Ladoga Fortress in Staraya Ladoga. Leningrad Region, Russia, July 18, 2004
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/957/jpeg/22t.jpg) Saint George s Cathedral in Old (Staraya) Ladoga. Leningrad Region, east from Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 4, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2000/167/jpeg/15t.jpg) An Orthodox church in Gornensky Convent for women (the Russian Orthodox Mission of Moscow Patriarchate in Jerusalem). Ein Kerem (western Jerusalem), the Middle East, December 30, 2000
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1258/jpeg/24t.jpg) Altar of Cathedral of Blagoveshcheniya Presviatoy Bogoroditsy in Holy Annunciation Nikandrova Desert Monastery (Svyato-Blagoveshchenskaya Nikandrova Pustyn). Pskov Region, Russia, September 8, 2013
|