Nilo-Stolobenskaya hermitage description and photos - Russia - Central region: Lake Seliger (Topic)

Nilo-Stolobenskaya desert description and photos - Russia - Central region: Lake Seliger. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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8 kilometers from the city of Ostashkov (by water) there is a small flat island Stolobny, where a monastery was built - the Nilo-Stolobenskaya desert. Saint Nile once lived here, who healed the sick, rescued fishermen caught by a storm on the lake. After the death of the saint, other hermits began to settle on the island and a monastery arose in the middle of the 16th century.

The founder of the monastery was the monk Herman from the Nikolo-Rozhok monastery. The wooden church and cells built by him (together with the passers-by who were here) on the island received the title of a monastery and began to be called the Nilova Hermitage. The monastery gradually erects wooden and then stone buildings.

The center of the monastery complex is the Epiphany Cathedral, crowned with five domes. From the west a four-tier bell tower is attached to it, the facades of the cathedral are decorated with six-column porticoes. Inside the temple, all walls, pillars and pilasters are decorated with artificial multi-colored marble, the painting is made in the grisaille style. Here, in the cathedral, the relics of Nil Stolobensky are kept.

At the turn of the XIX-XX centuries, the monastery was one of the most famous and prosperous. But on June 9, 1928, the monastery was closed and plundered. And only in 1991 the monastery was reopened as a monastery.

The Epiphany Cathedral (1821-1833), the Peter and Paul Church (1764), the Nile Church (1755), the All-Saints Church (1701), the buildings of fraternal cells and treasury chamber. The eastern bank is occupied by numerous wooden and stone buildings of the 18th century. Partially preserved garden and grove,

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