Nikolsky Skete of Valaam Monastery in Karelia, 1996
Karelia, Russia. An aerial view of the Nikolsky Skete of the Valaam Monastery on Lake Ladoga. Skete is a relatively isolated community for monks to live ascetically. Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia (not pictured) arrived in Valaam to celebrate the feast day of Saints Serhius and Herman of Valaam believed to have founded the monastery in the late 14th century. Semyon Maisterman/ITAR-TASS
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