The Pskov-Pechersky Monastery is located in the valley among karst caves, looks mysterious and majestic. The story of its foundation is no less mysterious. The annals say that the Izborsk hunters at the end of XIV in., Driving past the stream of Kamenets, they heard singing. Later, when the lands were acquired by peasants, and one of them chopped a tree, it fell, dragging the rest behind him, and a cave with the inscription above the entrance: “God of the cave building” opened in the ground. Ancient legend says that the monks who fled from the Horde lived here. So the monastery was founded here. You will need to book a hotel in advance to visit this place. This monastery is unique. After the revolution, he remained the only religious and spiritual center of Russia due to the fact that he was not closed. During the second wave of persecution of the Church in the 1960s. The Finnish elders found refuge here, disagreeing with the introduction of the new calendar in the Finnish Orthodox Church. Almost the only icon painters of the Soviet era, abbot, Alipius Voronov, who left behind a rich heritage, and Archimandrite Zinon, after which there were magnificent works on the historical study of iconography, worked here.
