Trinity Lavra of St Sergius

The largest men's monastery of the Russian church was founded around 1337 by Sergius of Radonezh. Behind its walls stand buildings of five centuries, among them the white-stone Trinity Cathedral of 1422, for which Andrei Rublev and Daniil Chorny painted icons, the Dormition Cathedral of the sixteenth century and a five-tier baroque bell tower 88 metres high. Between 1608 and 1610 the monastery withstood a sixteen-month siege by the forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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