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Svyatogorsky Monastery of the Holy Assumption: A.S.Pushkin’s native land

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Svyatogorsky Monastery of the Holy Assumption was founded in 1569 by decree of Ivan IV on the site of the miraculous finding of the icon of the Virgin. The monastery served as one of the border outposts of the Russian Empire. Soon a small village was formed nearby, which in the eighteenth century was called Svyatye Gory (the Holy Mountains). In 1925 the name of the village, located 100 kilometers from Pskov, was changed to the Pushkinskiye Gory

In the eighteenth century the Svyatogorsky Monastery ceased to play an important role as a frontier outpost. In Soviet times it was closed, and from the end of the 1940s it became a part of the museum of the great Russian poet A.S. Pushkin. Only in 1992 the monastery was returned to the bosom of the church. Now the monastery is functioning. At the same time, it remains part of the memorial of Pushkin's places. Tourists come here every day to examine the family tomb, where the great Russian poet and his parents are buried.

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