Ipatiev Monastery

The Ipatiev Monastery occasionally translated into English as Hypatian Monastery is a male monastery, located on the bank of the Kostroma River in Kostroma. It become founded around 1330 by a Tatar convert, Prince Chet, whose male-line descendants encompass Solomonia Saburova and Boris Godunov and committed to St. Hypatios of Gangra. In 1435, Vasily II concluded a peace together with his cousin Vasily Kosoy there. At that point, the cloister turned into a amazing centre of studying. It became here that Nikolay Karamzin discovered a hard and fast of three, 14th-century chronicles, along with the Primary Chronicle, now known as the Hypatian Codex.

During the Time of Troubles in Russia, the Ipatiev Monastery changed into occupied via the supporters of False Dmitriy II in the spring of 1609. In September of that same year, the monastery turned into captured via the Muscovite army after a long siege. On March 14, 1613, the Zemsky Sobor introduced that Mikhail Romanov, who turned into in this monastery at the time, would be the Russian tsar. Most of the monastery buildings date from the 16th and 17^th centuries. The Trinity Cathedral is well-known for its elaborately painted interior. The church of the Nativity of the Mother of God turned into rebuilt by using the prestigious Konstantin Thon on the request of Tsar Nicholas I to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the House of Romanov.