St. Tikhon Transfiguration Women's Monastery

One of the revered places in Zadonsk is a female monastery built on the ruins of an old male monastery. Many pilgrims come here to pray, plunge into the cold waters of the holy spring and receive healing from mental and physical ailments.

The monastery on the site of the present St. Tikhon convent existed since 1865. Saint Tikhon loved to visit this deserted place in the wilderness for solitude and prayer. On the bank of the river Prohodni, the saint built a spring, which is now healing. After the revolution of 1917, the monastery suffered the fate of most Russian monasteries. Almost completely destroyed, desecrated, it was returned to the church in 1991. A lot has changed here since then. On the territory of the monastery majestically stands the restored Trinity Cathedral - the main temple of the monastery. The upper chapel is consecrated in honor of the Life-giving Trinity, the lower one in honor of the Assumption of the Most Holy Mother of God. Next to it stands a slender gate bell tower with the Transfiguration Church.

In memory of the stay in the skete of St. Tikhon, a special cell was arranged in one of the towers of the monastery. It contains the icon of Tikhon Zadonsky with his life.

Not far from the monastery is a bath over the spring of St. Tikhon. The water here is always +4 degrees. It takes a lot of courage to take a plunge. But in winter and summer, in the snow and in the rain, people from all over the world gather near the spring. They say that after bathing in it you gain fortitude and self-confidence.