Alexander Svirsky Monastery

Александро-Свирский монастырь / The Alexander Svirsky Monastery - 1900s

Дореволюционная Россия на фотографиях
Александро-Свирский мужской монастырь
Старая Слобода,
Ленинградская обл.

Pre-revolutionary Russia in photographs
The Holy Trinity Alexander Svirsky Monastery
Staraya Sloboda,
Leningrad region

The monastery founded by St Alexander Svirsky in 1487, in the sparsely populated forest on the banks of Lake Roshchinsky. The golden age of the monastery was in the 17th century. The Russian tsars bestowed many important privileges on Alexander's cloister.
During the Time of Troubles, the Swedes sacked and burnt both hermitages on three occasions, and yet the monastery continued to prosper.
Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, the monks were imprisoned and then executed by the Cheka after trying to resist Bolshevik forces. The medieval monastery buildings housed an infamous gulag known as Svirlag. Restoration of the monastery began in the 1970s.

Saint Alexander of Svir

Saint Alexander of Svir, that saw the Holy Trinity

Участок Старая слобода