Diveevo. Arzamas. Source: Seraphim Sarovskiy

This tour can be called “Holy Places and Great Cathedrals”. The huge Resurrection Church of Arzamas and mosaics of the Annunciation Cathedral of Diveev will not leave anyone indifferent. You will visit the Trinity Cathedral, where the relics of St. Seraphim of Sarov are stored, you will be able to perform ablution in the holy spring. The city of Arzamas will surprise you with its history - majestic and tragic.

The road to Diveyevo Monastery takes 3 hours. On the ancient Arzamas road we will go to the “fourth lot of the Virgin”. On the way to the village of Epiphany we will see a temple built by Auguste Montferrand himself. In the capital of geese and bow Arzamas we will visit the Museum of the Russian Patriarchate and the house of Arkady Gaidar. We will walk through the merchant streets of Arzamas, look into the Resurrection Cathedral and the Nikolaev Women’s Monastery, admire the grandiose temple of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God in the village of Vyezdnoye. I will tell you the story of Arzamas and show you the monument to Patriarch Sergei Stragorodsky. Stepan Razin, Pugachev, Suvorov, Pushkin, Gorky, Gaidar left their mark in the history of Arzamas.

Then our way lies in the Holy Trinity Seraphim-Diveevsky Monastery. You will find a story about the life and miracles of the holy elder. You will visit the Trinity Cathedral, where the relics of St. Seraphim of Sarov are stored. In a fertile spring near the village of Tsyganovka you can get water and plunge. Swim, for Christ’s sake, in winter and summer. Having fed up in a refectory of lean food, we will go back. You can only see so much in one day with a good guide and driver.

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