The Goritsky Monastery of

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(russian: Успенский Горицкий монастырь) was a

Russian Orthodox Russian Orthodoxy (russian: Русское православие) is the body of several churches within the larger communion of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, whose liturgy is or was traditionally conducted in Church Slavonic language. Most ...

monastery A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits). A monastery generally includes a place reserved for prayer which ...

Pereslavl-Zalessky Pereslavl-Zalessky ( rus, Переславль-Залесский, p=pʲɪrʲɪˈslavlʲ zɐˈlʲɛskʲɪj, lit. ''Pereslavl beyond the woods''), also known as Pereyaslavl-Zalessky, is a town in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, located on the main Mosc ...

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. Peraslavl-Zalessky Historical Museum website
It was supposedly established in the early 14th century during the reign of

Ivan I of Moscow Iván I Danilovich Kalitá (Russian: Ива́н I Данилович Калита́; 1 November 1288 – 31 March 1340 or 1341Basil Dmytryshyn, ''Medieval Russia:A source book, 850-1700'', (Academic International Press, 2000), 194.) was Grand Du ...

(Ivan Kalita). In 1382

Tokhtamysh Tokhtamysh ( kz, Тоқтамыс, tt-Cyrl, Тухтамыш, translit=Tuqtamış, fa, توقتمش),The spelling of Tokhtamysh varies, but the most common spelling is Tokhtamysh. Tokhtamısh, Toqtamysh, ''Toqtamış'', ''Toqtamıs'', ''Toktamy ...

Khan destroyed the town and the monastery with it. According to the legend, Grand Princess

Eudoxia of Moscow Eudoxia of Moscow (russian: Евдокия Дмитриевна, ''Yevdokia Dmitriyevna''), with monastic name Euphrosyne (1353 – 1407), was a Grand princess of Moscow and wife of Dmitry Donskoy. Biography Eudoxia was a daughter of Dmitry Konst ...

arrived as a pilgrim the day before the attack and managed to escape the Horde on a raft, covered by fog of the Pleshcheyevo lake. In gratitude for the miraculous salvation, she rebuilt the monastery and established a tradition of Easter rides on rafts across the lake. All the monastery's manuscripts were destroyed by a fire on June 12, 1722, which is why little is known about its history. No original architecture was preserved. The oldest parts of the preserved ensemble date to the 17-18th centuries. The monastery was closed in 1788. In 1919 the Pereslavl-Zalessky Historical Museum was established within its territory.

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