Optina Desert - Chamordino
Description:
Men's monastery Vvedenskaya Optina Desert, located near the city of Kozelsk at the edge of the pine forest, cut off from the world by the river Gizdra, was an excellent place for hermit contemplative life.
Optina deserts left an amazing mark in the national history and culture. Here came Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gogol, Aksakov ...
We will also visit the Kazan Holy Ambrose desert, which is located in the village of Shamordino, and go to Klykovo, where Mother Sepfora, famous for her gift of prediction and cure of diseases, found her last shelter.