🏛 Preobrazhenskaya Old Believer Community and Nikolsky Monastery

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A walled 18th-century town of Fedoseyevtsy Old Believers, with turrets: the Church of St Nicholas, the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross by the cemetery, cell buildings and a quiet courtyard.

The community was founded in 1771, during the plague, around a quarantine and a cemetery for priestless Old Believers.
The organiser was the Fedoseyevtsy merchant Ilya Kovylin; the chapel at the cemetery bears his name.
Under Nicholas I some of the buildings were taken from the Old Believers and made into the Nikolsky Edinoverie Monastery.
The wall with pseudo-Gothic turrets looks like a small kremlin.

Part of these routes

Preobrazhenka and Cherkizovo: Old Believers and a pond