Solovecki Islands are situated in the White sea on the nortern Russia, further away are only Arctics. It's a famous monastery founded in XVc. by monks Savvatiy, Zosima and the third one mmm... It's used to be the northern forpost of the country for few hundreds years, extremely strong walls are made of stones, few hundreds kilo each! Archtecturally it's made in Novgorod's style, which is a quiet a difference from Moscow's. This monastry used to be a center of all norhern region for many years. Monks were ... (more)