In the small village of Luga district, Leningrad region called Turov is famous saint Caves source. The advent of Pechersk source refers to the turn of 16-17 centuries, when in the summer a village girl, grazing their cattle, happy occasion was spared the incessant attacks of the peasant phenomenon of the Virgin. On the very spot where there was the sudden appearance of the Virgin Mary, was the sacred spring break, which soon became famous for its water with healing and life-giving properties.

Some time later, in a nearby cave there was the miraculous icon of Our Lady of the Assumption, which also were shown the faces of John the Baptist, Jesus Christ and all his apostles .  In the cave, namely, forest ravine, where there was an icon, a chapel was built in the name of Our Lady of the Cave, which has been completely built of wood .  After a period of time the holy icon of Our Lady of the Assumption was moved into a new chapel .  Close to the shrine area was called Malaya Pechorkoy .  During the 17-18 centuries the miraculous image of Our Lady of the Caves located in the building of the chapel, but in 1789 the chapel it was moved to the village meadow, which was elevated to the magnificent cathedral, consecrated in the name of Catherine the Great .  After transferring the icons on the face of the cathedral was entrusted with gilded silver robe .  Every year in the summer, after Luga perform sacred liturgy, passing in the Resurrection Cathedral, a procession icon assigned to the place of its appearance .

It is known that in 1851 Timofey Vlasov - a farmer from a village called Gobzhitsy located at Pechechitskom parish, as well as a rich landowner Kishkin Barbara built a new chapel in the village of Turov, consecrated in honor of St. Nicholas. The emergence of a new chapel was due to the fact that in 1702 the church of the same name in Turov was dismantled. For the development of the project of construction of the chapel took the famous architect Peter Lukashevich (designer of some of the buildings in the monastery Cheremenetskom), which over the years 1849-1850 painstakingly worked on the design of the chapel. The new project was presented as a small chapel, which is on the perimeter was surrounded by a gallery-promenades, beautifully domed in the form of a hemisphere and the drum, decorated in the form of hexagon. Located on the edges of the drum window is especially emphasized similarities with the rotunda.

In the early 20th century chapel on the source Pechersk become completely unrecognizable: a gable roof and has become quite modest in size small dome. In addition to the celebration of the so-called "Pecherok" held each year on Friday in the first week of the great Petrova post, making a big procession passing by Smeshinskoy church and reaching the Cave of the chapel in the holy source. In the village held a local celebration, which was dedicated to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in honor of blessed memory was situated previously on the site of the old church.

In the 20th century, the share of the chapel on the holy Pechersk a spring fell hard test. Great damage was caused initially by the Communists, after which the Nazis even more aggravated situation in the chapel of the holy spring. Throughout 1996, we carried out full-scale operation to restore the original form of the shrine, above the source.

A few years later, namely in 1999, the famous bathing in the holy Pechersk source was reconstructed on donated funds Melnikova OA in providing the necessary building material eminent entrepreneur NM Tishchenko Today, just as in the old days, there is a tradition to be committed procession on the first Friday of the great Petrova post, accompanied by a prayer service blessing of water.