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	Solovetsky Monastery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Solovetsky Monastery Uprising of 1668-1676 was aimed at Nikon's ecclesiastic reform and took on an anti-feudal nature.
		Between the 16th and the early 20th centuries, the monastery was also a place of exile for the opponents of autocracy and official Orthodoxy and a center of christianization in the north of Russia.
		The territory of the Solovetsky Monastery is surrounded by massive walls (height - 8 to 11 m, thickness - 4 to 6 m) with 7 gates and 8 towers (built in 1584-1594 by an architect named Trifon), made mainly of huge boulders up to 5 m in length.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Solovetsky_Monastery (598 words)

	Monastery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Saint Saba organized the monks of the Judean Desert in a monastery close to Betlehem (483), and this is considered the mother of all monsteries of the Eastern Orthodox churches.
		Buddhist monasteries, known as vihara, emerged from the practice of vassa, the retreat undertaken by Buddhist monks and nuns during the South Asian rainy season.
		Forest monasteries- most commonly found in the Theravada traditions of Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka- are monasteries dedicated primarily to the study of Buddhist meditation, rather than scholarship or ceremonial duties.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Monastery (1494 words)

	Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery, properly translated in English as The Assumption monastery of St Cyril, has always rivalled the Solovetsky Monastery as the strongest fortress and the richest landowner of the Russian North.
		The monastery was founded in 1397 on the bank of the Siverskoe Lake, to the south from the town of Beloozero, in the present-day Vologda region.
		In the 16th century, the monastery was the second richest landowner in Russia, after Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kirillo-Belozersky_Monastery (457 words)

	Encyclopedia: Solovetsky Monastery
		Buddhist monastery near Tibet A monastery is the habitation of monks.
		The Solovetsky Islands (Russian:) are a group of islands in the White Sea at the Onezhskaya inlet in the Arkhangelsk Oblast of Russia.
		A museum is typically a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education enjoyment, the tangible and intangible evidence of people and their environment.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Solovetsky-Monastery (3149 words)

	Solovetsky Islands - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		In the 15th century, one of the biggest monasteries - the Solovetsky Monastery - was founded on the Solovetsky Islands, attracting many tourists.
		Shortly after the Russian revolution, the monastery was turned into the Solovki Special Purpose Camp, a "seed" of Gulag, and then into a prison.
		In 1974, the Solovetsky Islands became a historical and architectural museum and a natural reserve of the USSR.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Solovetsky_Islands (240 words)

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		The present relief of Solovetsky islands is characterized by two types: helly-morainal lands, created by the melting process of glacier and a relief of sea terraces organized as a result of influence of sea breakers to the shore ground in the period of holocen rising of the archipelago.
		Solovetsky armed revolt is the unique phenomenon in the history of Russian Orthodox Church, it is one of the dramatic pages in the history of the monastery.
		Solovetsky islands as a natural phenomenon are of great value.}{\f27\lang1033\langfe1049\langnp1033 \par }{\f27\cf1\lang1033\langfe1049\langnp1033 Geological formation of the archipelago reflects all main stages of after glacial geological history of Northern Europe; the is lands have been demonstrating the processes of compensational raise of the land and abatement of the water-level of the seas of the Arctic Ocean.
	www.museum.ru /solovki/unesco/1991_AF-Eng.doc (8790 words)

	Nordic Travel. Karelia :: Sights and Maps - Solovetsky Islands (Solovki)
		Solovetsky Archipelago is situated in the western part of the White Sea, less than 100 miles from the Polar Circle, and consists of 6 big and many small islands.
		Until to the middle of the 16th century Solovetsky monastery was alike other small-sized monasteries in the north.
		Solovetsky Monastery was often used as a prison for criminals and heretics.
	nordictravel.ru /page/solovetsky.html (1112 words)

	Solovetsky Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Solovetsky Islands (Russian: Солове́цкие острова́) are a group of islands in the White Sea at the Onezhskaya inlet in the Arkhangelsk Oblast of Russia.
		This group of islands consists of six islands (most notable are Solovetsky, Anzersky, Bolshoy Muksalma, and Maly Muksalma).
		In the 15th century, one of the biggest monasteries—the Solovetsky Monastery—was founded on the Solovetsky Islands, attracting many tourists.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Solovetsky_Islands (227 words)

	Art Gallery : Artwork
		Eventually, the Solovki Monastery strengthened its positions, and by the middle of the 16th century it became an important religious and political center of Russia.
		In the 16-17th centuries the Solovetsky Monastery's treasures drew the attention of the country's Western neighbors.
		Nevertheless, in January of 1676, it was seized because of the treason of monk Pheoktist.
	www.gallery-worldwide.com /cmItem.jsp?id=3546&view=CATY (1605 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Solovetsky Monastery on the shore of the White Sea, which is the same age as Prince Hamlet’s castle Elsinor, became a miracle of the art of fortification.
		The Solovetsky Monastery, increasing its economic activity on the islands, built agricultural factories, laid access roads to the factories, joined lakes with canals, became engaged in fishery, and in the beginning of the 20th century it had its own fleet, a variety of workshops, its own telegraph, radio station and electric power station.
		The popularity and fame of the Solovetsky Monastery as a holy place of worship was linked with the ill fame of the monastery prison until the beginning of the 20th century.
	www.marlis.ru /travels?tr=10 (1303 words)

	Sailing the White Sea to Solovki
		The 15th-century Solovetsky Monastery on an island near the Arctic Circe was infamous as a Soviet labor camp in the 1920s and 1930s.
		As we approached the coast, the monastery grew in size, impressive and majestic under the magical light of the evening sun, a sun that doesnфt disappear for all of June.
		The scenery of Solovki is difficult to resist, with the presence of the water, the lush woods and the peaceful simplicity of life in the islandфs village.
	www.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2000/07/15/106-print.html (921 words)

	KORELA - Sights and excursions
		The foundation of the monastery is officially accepted to be the year of 1506 and the 500th anniversary of the cloister will be celebrated in 2006.
		Since the middle of the 16th century the Solovetsky monastery served as a place for exile for those who as per the authorities' opinion needed to live through a "spiritual ordeal".
		The Solovetsky Kremlin is one of a few indivisible monastery architectural ensembles of the 16th-17th centuries that has been preserved up to the present times.
	korela.onego.ru /se.html (2150 words)

	Rusnorth.com: Solovki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It is the history of Solovetsky monastery, one of the main relics of Russian orthodoxy, which began in the 30-ties of the 15- th century, with small inok settlements.
		Solovetsky monastery was always used for isolation and punishment of criminals and heretics.
		After closing the monastery in 1920 here was a concentration camp then, the educational group of Northern Marine Sea fleet and a museum were placed.
	www.rusnorth.com /news/news8.html (963 words)

	World Heritage Review #12
		The Solovetsky monastery was in its day one of the main cultural and spiritual centres of Russia and an important centre of the Orthodox faith.
		The monastery played a significant role in the translation into Russian of the Orthodox spiritual tradition, but at the same time it was the first centre in the Russian north to introduce a number of technical achievements and was consequently a centre of innovation.
		In the early 1990s, the monastery as a religious organisation was re-established on Big Solovetsky island though it did not regain its former functions and influence.
	whc.unesco.org /whreview/article6.html (1964 words)

	Karelian Tourism Portal :: Travel and Tourism in Karelia :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Solovetsky Monastery is situated in the western part of the White Sea, less than 100 miles from the Polar Circle, and consists of 6 big and many small islands.
		When visiting Solovetsky Island, you get acquainted with legendary Monastery buildings and fortress walls and towers, learn the history of the infamous Stalin's prison SLON.
		Under his leadership the Monastery started building stone temples, new roads, canals to connect it numerous lakes.
	ticrk.ru /eng/cgi/view-sight.html?id=2149 (651 words)

	Hotel "Solovki" on Solovki Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Solovetsky Archipelago is situated in the Onega gulf of the White Sea.
		Moscow was also interested in the fortification of its northern borders; it helped to build the monastery's defence with various privileges and donations; twelve years later, under the guidance of the monk Triphon, a fortress was built.
		One of the most interesting events in the Solovki's history is the famous Solovetsky Revolt (1668-1676), which is also regarded as the greatest event in the history of Russian schism.
	www.imperialtravel.net /new/solovki.shtml (1418 words)

	[Russia 1: culture] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The buildings of the smaller monasteries of the land of Vologda always have an air of intimacy about them: their architecture is unostentatious and harmonizes well with the landscape, and their grounds are not so extensive.
		Another example is the Goritsy Monastery of the Resurrection, on the River Sheksna, not far from the Monastery of St Cyril, with its Cathedral Church of the Resurrection[(1544).
		From the end of the sixteenth century the Solovetsky Monastery was the strongest fortress in the North.
	russia-hc.ru /eng/culture/russev/fe_ki_so/russev_11.cfm (351 words)

	Sunbirds.com: The Solovetsky Island Monastery - Russian Lacquer item (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Solovetsky Island Monastery by Skripunov, Gennady Venediktovich of Fedoskino #770263
		Monasteries are not even limited to the cities and a great number can be found nestled away in remote regions of Russia, where they are able to fully sustain themselves with no outside assistance.
		The reflection he paints in the lake, of the monastery, is done so that it looks like the fog rising along the water’s surface distorts the reflection.
	www.sunbirds.com /lacquer/box/770263 (488 words)

	Solovetsky islands
		Solovetsky islands is located in the western part of the White Sea, in the Onega gulf, less than 150 km from the Polar Circle.
		The biggest is the Greater Solovetsky Island on which the legendary medieval monastery stands.
		It was put on the shore of the southwestern part of Solovetsky Island in memory of the victory over the British fleet in 1854.
	eng.solovki.ru (2389 words)

	Gulag Archipelago Tour to Solovetsky Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		On Greater Solovetsky, largest of the islands, stands the medieval Solovetsky Monastery.
		Set inside the kremlin walls and surrounded by dense forests, the monastery has been a place of prayer and penance and later of imprisonment and exile.
		En route to and from Solovetsky, we visit the port city of Archangelsk, pausing at the outdoor wooden architecture museum.
	www.mircorp.com /gatsi.html (336 words)

	eLibrary Project : Monastery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Mar Saba organized the monks of the Judean Desert in a monastery close to Betlehem (483), and this is considered the mother of all monsteries of the Eastern Orthodox churches.
		Buddhist monasteries emerged from the practice of vassa, the retreat undertaken by Buddhist monks and nuns during the South Asian rainy season.
		Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great at Scetis (Wadi Natrun-Egypt) - Provides an image of Saint Macarius the Great, detailed information on the Monastery's history, reconstruction, monastic rule, daily activities of the monks, and other aspects of monastic life and ritual; text is also available in Arabic, French, and German.
	elibraryproject.com /info/monastery.html (2994 words)

	Abbey village Varzuga part of Solovetsky Monastery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		From the second half of the 15th century the Solovetsky Monastery had property in Varzuga.
		The Solovetsky Monastery is build on the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea.
		In the middle of the 17th century the Moscovian Tsjaar confiscated some land from Solovetsky Monastery including Varzuga.
	www.kolatravel.com /varzuga.htm (279 words)

	Solovki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Solovki is a shortened name for the Solovetsky Islands, White Sea, Russia.
		Historically it has been a location of the famous Russian Orthodox Solovetsky Monastery complex, which repelled foreign attacks during the Time of Troubles, the Crimean War, and the Russian Civil War.
		The Orthodox Church reestablished the monastery in 1992, the year when the ensemble was included into UNESCO's World Heritage List.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Solovki (204 words)

	SOLOVETSKY ISLAND
		The Solovetsky Monastery was for 500 years one of the most influential religious centers in Russia.
		In the monastery museum, the smell is of wood-burning fires stoked in shafts behind the walls.
		The Solovetsky Monastery, founded 60 years before Columbus discovered America, was for centuries famous for its religious zeal and pious obstinacy.
	www.vip.lv /LPRA/solovetsky_island.htm (1408 words)

	White Nights: Norway & Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		As we enter Russia's White Sea wilderness, we view relics of the Soviet era, centers for shipbuilding and logging, and the fortress-like monastery in the Solovetsky Islands, which became a place of exile and imprisonment.
		The Solovetsky monastery, one of Stalin's infamous Gulags
		Solovetsky Islands, an isolated archipelago, home to the Solovetsky monastery where Stalin's government housed one of the Soviet Union's most infamous Gulag camps.
	www.luxurytour.com /smallship/whitenights.htm (569 words)

	Welcome to Karelia - Petrovan Tour
		Karelia is one of the most well-known russian territories in international tourism, for it has a lot of unique architectural, cultural and historical objects on Kizhi and Valaam islands and on Solovetskie Islands, situated not far from the administrative borders of Karelia and included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
		And finally, Solovetskie Islands are situated on the northern administrative borders of Karelia and on the territory of Archangelsk region.
		In 15 century an orthodox monastery, which later became one of the largest spiritual and cultural centers, was founded here.
	www.petrovan-tour.com /index.php?country=default&city=solovki (721 words)

	wfn.org \| 10 years after coup, Putin seeks inspiration from Russia's Christian
		He was accompanied to the monastery by Patriarch Alexei II, leader of the Russian Orthodox Church.
		In what observers have described a carefully-timed vacation, the president has been visiting Orthodox churches and monasteries in northern Russia as his country marks the 10th anniversary of the attempted coup which was launched against the then Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, on Aug. 19, 1991.
		In his remarks at the monastery, President Putin also appeared to distance himself from the "exclusivist" interpretation of Orthodox Christianity often propagated by Russian nationalists.
	www.wfn.org /2001/08/msg00252.html (560 words)

	Intourist Petrozavodsk LTD - Travel to Karelia - Famous places - Monasteries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Solovetsky islands are situated in the Onega Bay of the White Sea.
		In the 16th century the Solovetsky Monastery was a big religious and political center in Russia.
		The architectural ensemble of the Monastery was finished by the end of the 17th century.
	intourist.onego.ru /eng/karelia/famous/monastery/solovki.html (157 words)

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