Monument Anna of Kashin is one of the newest monuments Kashin. It was established June 22, 2009, its grand opening and consecration took place on June 25th. The author of the monument to the renowned saint made famous sculptor A. Kovalchuk. He also worked on the monument to Mikhail of Tver in Tver.

Anna of Kashin is the patron saint of the city. Anna famous dramatic fate (almost all of her relatives were killed in civil strife). With her name also associated complex posthumous vicissitudes: fighting during the split in the 17th century. It has led to what has been the holy dekanonizirovana.

Anna was the daughter of Prince Dmitri of Rostov. In 1299, she married Prince Michael of Kiev, which in 1318 was executed in the Horde. In 1326 the Horde was executed and her son Dmitry, and in 1339 - another son and a grandson. When Anna took the veil is unknown, but in about 80 years, it is mentioned under the name of nun Sophia, probably while she was abbess of the convent of St. Athanasius. In 1361 Anna of Kashin donated the monastery several villages. In 1367, together with his son, Vasily Mikhailovich, Kashin prince of Tver, she went to Kashin. There she died. Before his death, she took schema again with the name Anna.

The remains of Anna of Kashin found in 1611 in a church in the name of Cascina Virgin. According to legend, Anne Sexton was Gerasim, healed him first, and then a few more patients; then her remains became revered as a saint miraculous.

In 1649 the Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, it was decided to open the power of Anna of Kashin, and the very princess canonized in Russian local church. July 21, 1649 in the presence of the king were inaugurated relics of St. Anne. Her body was incorrupt. In 1650, Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich again arrived in Kashin, then of holy relics of Princess Anne was officially transferred from the church of the Assumption Church in the Holy Resurrection Cathedral. In honor of Anna of Kashin at the behest of the king of the temple was built.

After giving conciliar anathema "splitters" between the Old Believers and novoobryadtsev continued debate on two fingers baptism. Old Believers, suggesting greater antiquity dvuperstiya, resulted in the confirmation of the power of open Anna of Kashin - the fingers of her right hand were folded just so. In February 1677 for approval to Kashin troeperstiya sent a commission that examined the power of the princess, and found "disagreement" with the protocols 1649 In the end, Anna of Kashin declared unholy, and its power unworthy of worship. The relics from the addition of two fingers were buried, the grave bricked in a way that traces of it left, the lid of the coffin was hidden somewhere under the floor. The church was closed in her honor.

But despite dekanonizatsiyu, Anna of Kashin continued revered as a saint. Tver bishops had not prevented it; written its icons, been recorded healings, religious processions were organized to bid farewell to her place of Michael Yaroslavich. In 1818 the Synod resolved to include her name Anna mesyatseslov. In 1908, Nicholas II agreed to re-canonization Anna of Kashin. In honor of Anna of Kashin he was consecrated the temple in St. Petersburg, which was the farmstead Kashin Sretensky Monastery.

The relics of St. Anne seized in the 1930s., Were returned to the Orthodox Church in 1948 and installed in Kashin in the Ascension Church. After closing the power of about a quarter of a century it was in the Peter and Paul church. Raku with the relics returned to their original location June 25, 1993