🏛 Trinity-Sergius Primorskaya Hermitage

Санкт-Петербургское ш., 15, Стрельна

An 18th-century monastery on the gulf shore with the Church of St Sergius of Radonezh and an old necropolis.

The land here was given in 1732 by Anna Ioannovna to her confessor, Archimandrite Varlaam; the monastery was founded in 1735.
On 28 June 1762, the day of the coup, Catherine II waited here for Peter III's written abdication.
Around 1773 the 16-year-old German — the future St Herman of Alaska — came here as a novice.
From 1834 the hermitage was run by Ignatius Brianchaninov, and it flourished under him.
In 1813, while a tomb was being prepared in Kazan Cathedral, Kutuzov's remains lay here for almost three weeks.
The necropolis holds Chancellor Gorchakov, Pushkin's lyceum friend, and the architect Stackenschneider.
The main Trinity Cathedral (1756–1760, designed by P. A. Trezzini) was blown up in the 1960s; the monastery was returned to the Church in 1993.