Russia - Tver Oblast - The St. Catherine's Monastery

The St. Catherine's Monastery in Tver, Tver Oblast.

Sent by Svetlana from Tver, Tver Oblast, Russia.

St. Catherine's Monastery is an Orthodox female monastery located in Tver in the Zatverechye microdistrict on the left bank of the Volga River, not far from the confluence of the Tvertsa into the Volga.

The decision to transform the courtyard of the Ascension Women's Orshin Monastery at the Church of St. Catherine the Great Martyr into the St. Catherine's Convent was made by Archbishop Viktor of Tver and 

Kashin in 1996, nun Juliania was appointed abbess of the monastery.

In 2001, the bell tower of the Church of the Holy Great Martyr Catherine (the main cathedral of the monastery) was restored, the restoration of the attached church of St. Sergius of Radonezh began.

According to the diocese, 25 people live in the monastery (abbess, 3 nuns, 3 nuns, 2 novices, 16 laborers), there is a Sunday school and Orthodox theological courses, where up to 100 people study (read more).

Russia - Tver Oblast - Tver

The monument to Afanasiy Nikitin, Tver, Russia.

Sent by Svetlana from Tver, Russia.

Tver (Russian: Тверь, IPA: [tvʲerʲ]) is a city and the administrative centre of Tver Oblast, Russia. It is situated at the confluence of the Volga and Tvertsa rivers. Tver is located 180 kilometres (110 mi) northwest of Moscow. Population: 416,216 (2021 Census).

The city is situated where three rivers meet, splitting the town into northern and southern parts by the Volga, and divided again into quarters by the Tvertsa River, which splits the left (northern) bank into east and west halves, and the Tmaka River which does the same along the southern bank.

Tver was formerly the capital of a powerful medieval state and a model provincial town in the Russian Empire, with a population of 60,000 by 14 January 1913. The city was known as Kalinin (Калинин) from 1931 to 1990 (read more).