Nilov Monastery is situated on Stolbnyi Island in Lake Seliger. The photo was taken by Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii in 1910. For comparison with modern views of the same places in Ostashkov, click here.

Stolbnyi Island is an island on Lake Seliger in the Tver Oblast of Russia, north of the town of Ostashkov. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (800x705, 142 KB) Early color photograph from Russia, created by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii as part of his work to document the Russian Empire from 1909 to 1915. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (800x705, 142 KB) Early color photograph from Russia, created by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii as part of his work to document the Russian Empire from 1909 to 1915. ... Seliger (Russian: Селигер) is a lake in Novgorod and Tver Oblasts of Russia, in the northwest of the Valdai Hills, a part of the Volga basin. ... Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (August 31, 1863 – September 27, 1944) (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Прокудин-Горский) devoted his career to the advancement of photography. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Seliger (Russian: Селигер) is a lake in Novgorod and Tver Oblasts of Russia, in the northwest of the Valdai Hills, a part of the Volga basin. ... Tver Oblast (Russian: Тверска́я о́бласть) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). ...

Nilov Monastery

The island is the home of Nilov Monastery, which was founded by Saint Nilus in 1594, and previously welcomed up to 40,000 pilgrims each year. Today the monastery complex remains as one of the most impressive ensembles of Neoclassical architecture in Eastern Europe. Some of its churches date back to the 17th century, a graceful embankment was completed by 1812, and a large cathedral was built in 1821-25. Events February 27 - Henry IV is crowned King of France at Rheims. ... Jump to: navigation, search Pilgrim at Mecca A pilgrimage is a term primarily used in religion and spirituality of a long journey or search of great moral significance. ... Neoclassicism (sometimes rendered as Neo-Classicism or Neo-classicism) is the name given to quite distinct movements in the visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture. ... (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ... 1812 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

During World War II, the monastery was the site of a NKVD camp which held approximately 7,000 Polish prisoners of war who had been taken captive by the Soviet Union as a result of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Almost all of the prisoners were subsequently executed in April 1940 in Kalinin (now Tver) and then buried in mass graves in Mednoye, in an act of mass murder which became known as the Katyn Massacre. Amongst those killed were Polish officers, lawyers, policemen, teachers, doctors, and other members of the intelligentsia. Jump to: navigation, search World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atom bomb. ... Black Ravens by Boris Vladimirski, a depiction of the cars used by NKVD agents. ... Geneva Convention definition A prisoner of war (POW) is a soldier, sailor, airman, or marine who is imprisoned by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict. ... Molotov (lower left), Ribbentrop (in black) and Stalin (far right) The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, also known as the Hitler-Stalin pact or Ribbentrop-Molotov pact or Nazi-Soviet pact and formally known as the Treaty of Nonaggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was in theory a... Jump to: navigation, search 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Kalinin refers to: Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin The city of Tver, which from 1931 to 1990 was named after Kalinin. ... A mass murder (massacre) is an act of murdering of a large number of people all at the same time. ... The Katyń massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest Massacre, was the mass execution of Polish citizens (mostly military officers POWs) by the Soviet Union during World War II. // Background Initially the expression referred to the massacre of the Polish military officers confined at the Kozielsk Prisoner of War (POW... Jump to: navigation, search The intelligentsia (from Latin: intelligentia) is a social class of intellectuals and social groups close to them (e. ...