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Memorials

Fence

Until the middle of the 19th century, the monastery wall was wooden and had four corner towers. The wall facing Lake Borodaevskoye embraced the monastery constructions of the 16th century, namely stone cellars, a guesthouse and a kitchen. In the...

The Treasury Chamber

The oldest extant monument of civil architecture of the 16th century in the north of Russia was intended for storing funds and documents of the Ferapontov Monastery. The documents as well as the monastery inventories were kept here till the...

Bell Tower

The tent-shaped three-storey Bell-Tower is a very rare type of belfries with a square layout of bells and a four-sided tent. There are 17 bells in its upper tier. A unique mechanism of the striking clock dated to 1638 has come down to us in the...

The Church of Venerable Martinian

The tent-shaped church was built next to the southern wall of the Nativity of the Virgin Cathedral, above the grave of St. Martinian who was the second founder of the Ferapontov Monastery. A carved inscription on a white stone plaque informs of...

The Annunciation Church with the Refectory Chamber

It is a unique architectural monument of the first third of the 16th century. The church with the refectory was supposed to be built thanks to the donation of Grand Prince Basil III to commemorate the birth of his heir, future tsar Ivan IV. The...

Holy Gate with Gate Churches of Epiphany and Venerable Therapont

The Holy Gate that divides two worlds - the secular and the monastic – serves as the entrance to the monastery. Two gate arches of different size were used every day and on the feast days. The Churches of the Epiphany and St. Ferapont were...

The Virgin Nativity Cathedral

The Virgin Nativity Cathedral is the main church of the former Ferapontov male monastery. It hosts murals created in 1502 by the outstanding Moscow painter Dionisiy which have been kept intact without any restoring until now. Dionisiy’s murals...