Holy Assumption Monastery is an Orthodox monastery located in the Pskov region, namely in the village of Pushkin Mountains. Church of the monastery was founded on the orders of Ivan the Terrible in 1569 and has long served on the most revered monasteries in Russia. The monastery received a huge number of free gifts, the most valuable of which was a bell donated by Tsar Ivan the Terrible, whose weight reached 15 pounds, as well as the gospel, complained the king Mikhail Fedorovich. Today we can see a bit of the fragments of the bell, which was cast by order of Abbot Innocent in 1753 in Moscow.

Important changes have been waiting a monastery in the 18th century, when Russian border moved to the shores of the Baltic, and particularly after the order of Catherine II, according to which the monastery became the ranks of third-mansions, and all his land moved into the state treasury. Since the 19th century, the Church of the Monastery was closely associated with the name of Alexander Pushkin. The famous poet, while staying in St Michael, used to come here in the difficult moments of their creative aspirations. When writing the drama "Boris Godunov" Alexander sought the most historically truthful move to page their characters, which is why the poet spent much time in the monastery library studying chronicles sources in the attic of one of the "fraternal" buildings.

Around the perimeter of the monastery is surrounded by a stone wall. The monastery building is a couple of gates, some of which are holy, and the other - Pyatnitsky, who previously were located near the lost Friday Church.

Not far from the Gate of the house stands the governor, which was built in 1911. Named in honor of the lost church Nikolsky gate leads to the courtyard of the monastery trading. It is closely related Anastasievsko gate old stone attic, intended for the gatekeeper. Stone stairs lead directly to the Assumption Cathedral and then to the family cemetery Pushkin Hannibal. In the 18th century, to the old Assumption Cathedral were added two chapels - Odigitrievsky and Pokrovsky. It was in the coffin Odigitrievsky aisle AS Pushkin on the night before the burial.

The Holy Dormition Monastery in the family cemetery kind of Pushkin Hannibal are burial of family members: the grandfather of Pushkin - Osip Abramovich grandmother - Maria Alexeyevna, mother - and father of Hope Osipovna - Sobolev. In 1819 he died, Plato - the younger brother of the poet, who was buried in the Cathedral of the Assumption.

That is Church of the monastery was the last refuge of the great poet. In winter, February 6, 1837 after the memorial service of the poet's body betrayed the land, not far from the altar wall. After four years there has been a large marble monument that was commissioned by the widow of Pushkin Petersburg masters of monumental Affairs Permogorovu AM .. In 1924, the Church of the monastery was closed.

As you know, a huge amount of convents in more hit during the Great Patriotic War. Assumption Cathedral was restored only in 1949. In this place it was opened an exhibition which was devoted to the history of the monastery, as well as life, creativity, funeral duel and AS Pushkin.

In mid-1992 Sviatohirsk monastery was returned to the perpetuity of the Russian Orthodox Church. In the spring of May 29 with the participation of the Moscow Patriarch Alexy II in a solemn ceremony resumed service in the Holy Dormition Monastery, namely in the Assumption Cathedral.

Currently running Cathedral and its surroundings is widely used in cooperation with the Pushkin Reserve, as well as the Diocese. Today the monastery is home to about 25 monks and novices, although Pushkin their number does not exceed ten persons. The monks work on the monastery land farming. The monastery church Sunday school there. According to the blessing of the governor of the church, the monks take an active pilgrims. In the morning and evening, according to the charter of the monastery, conducted the service, and each day the monks conducting funeral of the poet AS Pushkin, bearing the name "with kinsmen."