The Ipatiev Monastery, sometimes translated into English as Hypatian Monastery, is a male monastery situated on the bank of the Kostroma River just opposite the city of Kostroma. It was founded around 1330 by a Tatar convert, Prince Chet, whose male-line descendants include Solomonia Saburova and Tsar Boris Godunov, and is dedicated to St. Hypatios of Gangra.
Ipatiev Monastery
Hypatian Monastery, 1861 painting by Alexey Bogolyubov
Zvonnitsa
Trinity Cathedral
Kostroma is a historic city and the administrative center of Kostroma Oblast, Russia. A part of the Golden Ring of Russian cities, it is located at the confluence of the rivers Volga and Kostroma. In the 2021 census, the population is 267,481.
Fire-observation watchtower in Kostroma (1825-1828)
Ipatievsky Monastery, 2009
Kostroma River, 2011
City Hall, July 2009