I know very little about this place.It is apparently the Russian Orthodox Monastery of Konevets, which is surrounded by pine forests on Konevets Island, a tiny (10 km) remote island in the middle of Ladoga lake. The monastery was stripped of all its icons and other religious works of art and used indiscriminately by the Russian military for the over 50 years. It is now used by the monks again and is slowly being restored.
The pictures of this once magnificent building in such a state of disrepair is so sad.
sad isn't it that is so well come down
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konevsky_Monastery
The Soviets fortunately kept and even preserved many old churches and monasteries because of the tourism value. I was lucky enough to see some of those; they were magnificent. This one apparently was out of the way enough that it was stripped of its treasures; I'm glad they are being restored.
ReplyDeleteMost interesting, thank you for posting this. I hope that the restoration will happen in a lot less time than it took to put it in disrepair.
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Beautiful! So much incredible art, literature and music has come from Russia. I'm glad to see this being restored, thank you for sharing it.
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