The Solovetsky Monastery on Bolshoi Solovetsky Island in the Onega Bay of the White Sea in Russia's North, is the site where the Soviet Union built one of its first camps for political prisoners.

The Cultural and Historic Ensemble of the Solovetsky Archipelago comprises a monastery-fortress of 15th to the early 20th centuries, a former monastic village of 16th to the early 20th centuries, ...

The monastery flourished in the mid-16th century under the direction of Philip (Feodor Kolychev), a Moscovite monk of noble origins who left a privileged existence in 1537, joined the Solovetsky ...

Solovetsky Monastery was founded in the 15th century. After the 1917 Bolshevik coup, the government disbanded the monastery, killed its leadership, and sent the monks into exile.

Father Porfiry is abbot of the newly restored Solovetsky Monastery. "For 500 years, this place reflected the genius and power of God. The Communist revolution was the story of a great fall.

Despite periods of turbulence, for almost six centuries the religious community of the Solovetsky Islands in Russia's North has provided an important centre of spirituality and pilgrimage In the ...

With its UNESCO-listed monastery and unspoilt forests and lakes, the Solovetsky archipelago is a place of almost ethereal beauty, and arriving by boat today is an uplifting experience, but during ...

Solovetsky Transfiguration Monastery, southwest view across Bay of Felicity. Dusk at midnight, June 29, 1999. Source: William Brumfield At the beginning of the 20th century, the Russian chemist and ...

SOLOVETSKY ISLANDS, Russia — Yuri Brodsky, who has dedicated his life to exposing the dark secrets of the ancient Solovetsky Monastery, pointed at a small, dirty courtyard window blocked by ...

The Solovetsky archipelago comprises six islands in the western part of the White Sea, covering about 300 km 2. They have been inhabited since the 5th century B.C. and important traces of a human ...