Вид Соловецкого монастыря с суши. View of the Solovetskii Monastery from land.

1915

The Solovetskii Monastery, founded in the early fifteenth century on an island in the White Sea, was for centuries one of the most important monastic and cultural institutions in Russia. The monastery was partially destroyed in the early Soviet period and became the site of the first major concentration camp of the Gulag system. In the post-Soviet era it is once again a functioning monastery.