Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery
Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery, known in English as White Lake St. Cyril's Monastery, is a Russian Orthodox monastery in Kirillov, Russia. It used to be the largest monastery and the strongest fortress in Northern Russia.
View of the mnastery in 2016
View from one of the monastery towers.
View from the lake (2021)
A 1897 view
Kirillov is a town and the administrative center of Kirillovsky District in Vologda Oblast, Russia, located on the shores of Lakes Siverskoye and Dolgoye, 129 kilometers (80 mi) northwest of Vologda, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: 7,728 (2010 Russian census); 8,229 (2002 Census); 8,817 (1989 Soviet census).
Bread-making factory in Kirillov
Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery as seen from Lake Siverskoye
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan outside the walls of the monastery
Young peasant women in front of wooden house (ca. 1909 to 1915) taken by Prokudin-Gorskii.