Christian intellectuals were purged from the Soviet Union; many died in prisons and concentration camps, the first of which was established in a former Orthodox monastery in the Solovetsky Islands ...

The preaching of the clergy was censored by edict of the Tsar and nonconforming prelates were imprisoned in dank and frigid Solovetsky Monastery on an island in the White Sea. The clergy in Russia ...

I live in a monastery, so I am more of a monk, really. And it's not on the surface, but there are a lot of the qualities there,' he said. 'They were saying, sacrifice, giving yourself to ...

European leaders have condemned the Kremlin’s “ultimate responsibility” in the death of Alexei Navalny, as supporters of Russia’s best-known opposition politician held remembrance events a ...

In fact, the British and the French were defeated at the bastions of Sevastopol, in the Baltic Sea, and also in the Far East and on the Solovetsky Islands," the presidential aide recalled.