Russia's Valaam Island has been a destination for religious pilgrims for hundreds of years. A 14th-century monastery and the natural beauty of Lake Ladoga have attracted visitors including tsars and ...

On December 13, 2016, the feast-day of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called, the Stavropegic Valaam Monastery of the Transfiguration celebrated the twenty-seventh anniversary of the rebirth of ...

Excursions and high-quality panoramas, a map of the island of Valaam, historical data on the monastery, church books and much more are available in the new mobile application created by the ...

Monks of Valaam Monastery (on the largest island of the Valaam archipelago in the northern section of Lake Ladoga in the Republic of Karelia, north-western Russia) have gathered their grain harvest ...

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia expressed hope that the Valaam Monastery would revive and bring Orthodoxy to the people, ITAR-TASS reports. “The Valaam Monastery has everything necessary to ...

MINSK, 25 July (BelTA) – The presidents of Belarus and Russia, Aleksandr Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin, met on the island of Valaam (Lake Ladoga) in Karelia, BelTA has learned. When in the Valaam ...

Moscow patriarch visits the monastery on Lake Ladoga. Under Soviet rule, the complex was all but ruins by the 1960s. “[M]onastic life itself now resumes with unexpected vigour”. Vladimir Putin was ...

MOSCOW, July 17. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko will visit the main cathedral of the Valaam monastery and several monastic communities ...

Parmesan may be hard to come by in Moscow these days, but a remote Russian monastery is bucking the trend by producing its own exotic Italian cheeses. Monks at the Valaam monastery, a favourite haunt ...

MINSK, 1 August (BelTA) – Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko and President of Russia Vladimir Putin are having a meeting on Valaam Island, Lake Ladoga, Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, ...