A View Of One Of The Towers Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery, Russia Stock Image

Here is a significant place in the history of Russia – Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery. Autumn time. In the frame focus - tower, painted in white color. The tower has three rows of loopholes: the upper is intended for long-range combat, the average - for the sole, the guns were in loopholes of the bottom row. There are niches and arches in the thick of fortress wall. Above the arch is a gallery of the Battle Phase, in which the archers moved. P.S. Savvino Storozhevsky Monastery - Orthodox Monastery of the Moscow diocese. Founded at the end of the XIV century, it is located on the mountain near the Moscow River in Zvenigorod. In XV-XVII centuries Savvino Storozhevsky monastery played the role of a military outpost of the Moscow principality in the west. The monastery was a favorite place of prayer of many Russian Tsars.