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The Verbilov Monastery is located at Lake Verbilov, five miles from the village of Balashovo and 20 miles from the station of the village of Pustoshka. The famous monastery was founded in 1600 by the governor Joseph Korsak. Since 1844, the monastery is considered non-standard, and since 1896 it was transformed from a male monastery into a female one. The monastery has two churches equipped with side-altars. The cathedral church was named after the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos and was founded in 1796. This community monastery has a parish school and an icon painting workshop. The Verbil Monastery is run by the Mother Superior.

The Verbil Monastery arose on the territory once occupied by the Poles, which happened after the death of Ivan the Terrible. At that time, there was a spiritual school at the monastery, in which Catholic priests were trained.

The territory of the monastery consisted of an array of forest, which is why it got its name - Verbilovskaya dacha, and stretched from the famous village of Verbilovo to the village of Stayki. The monastic grounds were located on the land that belonged to a Polish prince named Korsak. After some time, the territory adjacent to the monastery passed into the possession of another prince from Poland - Oginsky.

Prince Oginsky at one time transferred all his lands that belonged to the Verbilovsky monastery to the possession of the already Orthodox Verbilovsky monastery, which was founded in the village of Verbilovo. The educated Orthodox monastery was made for men, in the possession of which was not only the Verbilovskaya dacha, but also its own mill.

The Verbil Monastery operated until the October Revolution. In the fall of 1918, the monastery was closed. In the 1930s, schools for peasant youth began to open in the village, in which it was necessary to complete a seven-year education. In 1931, the Alol primary school was closed and turned into a secondary school, located in the building of a former monastery. During the Great Patriotic War, the German headquarters was located on the second floor in the building of the Verbilov Monastery, and German stables were located on the first floor. A German warehouse was also located in the church.

In 1948, the monastery church was dismantled, and another one-story building was built from its logs, in which several group rooms, an assembly hall and a sewing room were located. A small building was also built from the proceeds, designed for the workshop. After some time, a vegetable storehouse was built, during the construction of which a certain underground passage was discovered, which led from the building of the monastery itself to a small lake. The layout of the underground passage was made of bricks, and its vault was semicircular, the height of which reached one and a half meters. The walls were covered with terrible slime, because for a very long time it had not been used in any way.

At the moment, only a few brick buildings have survived, which most likely represented the rector's and nursing buildings, built in the late 19th - early 20th centuries. Today, the building of the former monastery houses health care institutions.

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