Metropolitan Joseph was a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, metropolitan of Petrograd (1926–1927). Master of Divinity (1903) and spiritual writer. He refused to accept the Declaration of 1927 on full loyalty to the soviet authorities and his transfer to the Diocese of Odessa, he became the leader of Josephite movement. He died during the Great Purge.
Metropolitan Joseph
The house in Ustyuzhna, on which a commemorative plaque to the metropolitan Joseph was placed. Actually he was born and lived in a neighboring house.
St. Onuphrius Monastery in Jabłeczna
Yuriev Monastery
St. Onuphrius Monastery in Jabłeczna
St. Onuphrius Monastery is a stauropegion Orthodox male monastery in Jabłeczna, under the jurisdiction of the Polish Orthodox Church.
St. Onuphrius Orthodox Church – the main temple of the monastery
Residential building and a part of the garden
Crosses near the monastery
Neoclassical Church of St. Onuphrius in the monastery complex was built between 1838 and 1840