Yellow waters

On the Volga, about a hundred kilometers downstream, on the Trans-Volga side, the Yellow-Vodsky Makariev Monastery becomes white. His story is interesting, rich and tragic. The place remembers Makariy himself, the Tatars of Ulu Muhammad, the years of desolation, revival, new construction, the detachments of Stepan Razin, Patriarch Nikon, Protopop Avvakum, the Fair, which worked here for almost two hundred years and attracted merchants from all over the world. There's a lot more...