Nicetas Stylites
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Nicetas Stylites was a 12th-century monk living in Kievan Rus' who founded the Monastery of St. Nicetas on the eastern shore of Lake Pleshcheyevo in Zalesye. He was later canonized as a saint in the E
Nikita Stolpnik with riza by shakko
Nikita Stylites (fresco, 18th century)
Zalesye
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Zalesye or Opolye is a historical region of Russia, comprising the north and west parts of Vladimir Oblast, the north-east of Moscow Oblast and the south of Yaroslavl Oblast. As the kernel of the medi
Nicetas Stylites
…Nikita) Stylites was a 12th-century monk living in Kievan Rus' who founded the Monastery of St. Nicetas on the eastern shore of Lake Pleshcheyevo in Zalesye. He was later canonized as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Nikita led a dissolute life in his youth. However, upon entering a church on a certain…
The site of an ancient Meryan sanctuary in Zalesye
Lake Pleshcheyevo near the Monastery of St Nicetas (2007)