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Left: The Monastery of St Kirill of the White Lake is in Kirillov, 5 miles (8 km) from Goritsy where the cruise ships dock.
Above: The monastery, founded at the end of the 14th century, came to the peak of its power in the middle of the 18th century when it owned 400 villages, 20,000 serfs and considerable wealth. |
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Left: The monastery contains many buldings including churches, cathedrals and some that are now used as a museum.
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Below: The monastery walls by the lake.
Right: The gateway into the inner area of the complex.
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| left: The flooded church of Krokhino stands at the point where the Upper Sheksna River enters the White Lake, both being part of the Volga-Baltic Canal. This church founded in the 15th century was flooded in the 1960s to provide a hydroelectric plant.
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Left: Cargoes of wood are common on this waterway which passes many forests. |
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