There is a legend that the place where the Varlaamo-Khutynsky monastery is located was wrapped in evil, and therefore it was nicknamed “Khutynya”. At the end of the XII in. Varlaam Khutynsky came here and coped with evil spirits. People began to be nailed to help him in righteous work, later the temple was put here in the name of the transformation of the Lord (Savior in Khutin), around which the monks began to settle. You will need to book a hotel in advance to visit this place. The monastery was badly damaged during the Time of Troubles, but quickly recovered, and before the secularization of the monastery lands flourished. Then the monastery began to slowly decline, the new construction was not carried out here. In 1925. The monastery was abolished, finally the monastery risked being erased from the face of the earth during the war, when several bombs fell into it. The monastery was revived as a female in 1994. The main places of pilgrimage in the monastery are the grave of the poet Derzhavin, the earthen hill, which the Monk Varlaam applied his cap, a healing source of his name and a small chapel. The latter, as they say, fulfills desires if it is around it 3 times barefoot..The nuns have a magnificent roseria diluted here.
