m. Monks and novices began to settle near his cell, and very soon the monastery was officially organized there. At first it was called Ascension Monastery. Elder Evphimiy was called to Monastery of Transfiguration in Kazan (which does not exist now), wher

The talks about pious Evphimiy and his life spread all over the area, and people began to visit hie he asked the metropolitan to bless his patrimonial miraculous icon, so that he could present it to the newly opened Monastery of Seven Lakes. It was hard for him to leave the icon, which was handed down in their family from generation to generation. But the monk loved people and the monastery, and that is why he made a decision to present the miraculous icon, so that any one could come to venerate it or pray in front of it.