🏛 Holy Dormition Convent

Старая Ладога, Волховский пр.

A convent on the bank of the Volkhov with an ancient white-stone church and quiet, well-kept grounds.

The Dormition Cathedral was built around 1154–1159 and is considered the northernmost church of pre-Mongol Rus.
From 1718 to 1725 Peter the Great's first wife, Evdokia Lopukhina, lived here in confinement.
From 1754 until her death, Evdokia, the first wife of Abram Gannibal, lived at the convent.
Restorers pieced together about 13,000 fragments of 12th-century frescoes — nearly 35 m² of painting.
Deep arcosolia niches in the cathedral walls were meant for burials, which is why historians consider it a princely burial church.
At the turn of the 20th century more than 200 people lived at the convent; its revival began in 2005.

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