The Orthodox Monastery Of Vvedenskaya Optina Pustyn In The Kaluga Region Of Russia. Stock Photography

The Orthodox monastery of Vvedenskaya Optina Pustyn in the Kaluga region of Russia. Vvedenskaya Optina monastery — stavropighial monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church, located near the town of Kozelsk, Kaluga region, the Kaluga diocese. The monastery is located about 2 kilometers North-East from the city of Kozelsk: the road crosses the Zhizdra river and goes along the monastery grove. In the years 1832-1839 around the monastery was built a low fence with four corner towers. Two kilometers from the monastery, on the same Bank of the Zhizdra, also station is a dead end. In the center of the monastery is the main temple of the monastery — Vvedensky Cathedral. The Cathedral is cruciform churches, the Church of Mary of Egypt, in the South — Kazanskaya Church, built in 1811, in the East of Vladimir. Grove behind the monastery is a Hermitage in which there are round-the-clock service.Here stayed writers Gogol, Dostoevsky and Konstantin Leont'ev. This monastery is one of the most famous in Russia.