Suzdal. Convent of Deposition of the Robe. Holy Gates & south wall. May 29, 2009. / William Brumfield. During the 11 years Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky traveled and documented the Russian ...

One of the oldest of Russian towns, Murom is mentioned in medieval chronicles under the year 862 as part of the domains of Riurik, ... the Monastery of the Annunciation and the Trinity Convent.

A Medieval Nun Wanted to Escape Her Convent—so She Faked Her Death This story and others have come to light during a project to translate and digitize a series of texts about archbishops in ...