Holy Dormition Monastery of Adrian Poshekhonsky

In the monastery, you can pray before the face of St. Adrian Poshekhonsky. He was born at the beginning of the 16th century. He was a monk and asceticized in one of the Vologda monasteries. By the command of God, accompanied by the elder, Adrian and his disciple Leonid set off for the dense forests of Poshekhonye. Some time later, in 1543, a church was built on this site in honor of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Saint Adrian was canonized for his righteous ascetic life and named a Venerable martyr for his demise. In the 18th century, St. Adrian's Poshekhonsky Assumption Monastery was one of the richest in the Yaroslavl province. It was abolished in 1918, and monks reappeared in the early 90s. Now it is the only preserved monastery complex in the territory of Poshekhonsky district, which includes a number of valuable architectural monuments of the 18th and 19th centuries.