Qualla: Khutyn Monastery https://qualla.com/khutyn-monastery en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:35 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/d/q/m/khutyn-monastery-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Khutyn Monastery https://qualla.com/khutyn-monastery Khutyn Monastery: Introduction https://qualla.com/khutyn-monastery/ Photo credit Дар Ветер, CC BY-SA 3.0. Ivan III opened the tomb in 1471 expecting bones. The story goes that smoke and fire poured out instead. The grand prince of Moscow, the man who had just crushed the Novgorod Republic and was about to drag northern Russia under his rule, fled the monastery and the city of Novgorod altogether, leaving behind only his staff as a gift to the local monks. They displayed it in the sacristy for centuries afterward. Whether the smoke was real or pious legend, Khutyn Monastery has always been the kind of place where stories like that get told and remembered, a Russian Orthodox cloister 10 kilometers north-northeast of Novgorod where the medieval Novgorod Republic kept one of its holiest shrines.

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]]> Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/d/q/m/khutyn-monastery-wp/udqm-khutyn-monastery-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Khutyn Monastery: A Boyar Becomes a Saint https://qualla.com/khutyn-monastery/ Photo credit Дар Ветер, CC BY-SA 3.0. Khutyn was founded in 1192 by a Novgorodian boyar named Oleksa Mikhailovich, who took the monastic name Varlaam and became the cloister's first hegumen. The transformation was complete enough that Russian nobility later traced family lines back to him, the Chelyadnins and the Pus...

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]]> Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/d/q/m/khutyn-monastery-wp/udqm-khutyn-monastery-a-boyar-becomes-a-saint.mp3 0:06 2 full Khutyn Monastery: The Tsars Build, the Tsars Visit https://qualla.com/khutyn-monastery/ Photo credit Дар Ветер, CC BY-SA 3.0. Vasily III, son of the Ivan who fled, ordered the original church demolished and replaced with something grander. The new Cathedral of the Transfiguration was completed by 1515, a six-pillared edifice patterned after the Assumption Cathedral in Rostov. It was the first piece of M...

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]]> Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/d/q/m/khutyn-monastery-wp/udqm-khutyn-monastery-the-tsars-build-the-tsars-visit.mp3 0:06 3 full Khutyn Monastery: Derzhavin's Grave https://qualla.com/khutyn-monastery/ Photo credit Дар Ветер, CC BY-SA 3.0. An annex was added to the cathedral in 1646, dedicated to Saint Gabriel. It later got a different name. In 1816 the poet Gavrila Derzhavin was buried in it, and the chapel has been called the Derzhavin annex ever since. Derzhavin had served Catherine the Great as governor and sen...

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]]> Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/d/q/m/khutyn-monastery-wp/udqm-khutyn-monastery-derzhavins-grave.mp3 0:06 4 full Khutyn Monastery: An Asylum, Then a Hostel https://qualla.com/khutyn-monastery/ Photo credit Дар Ветер, CC BY-SA 3.0. When the Bolsheviks closed the monasteries in the 1920s, Khutyn was emptied of its monks and turned into a lunatic asylum. Later it became a vacation home and hostel for visitors to the area. The Cathedral of the Transfiguration still stood, the Derzhavin annex still stood, but t...

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]]> Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/d/q/m/khutyn-monastery-wp/udqm-khutyn-monastery-an-asylum-then-a-hostel.mp3 0:06 5 full Khutyn Monastery: Now a Convent https://qualla.com/khutyn-monastery/ Photo credit Дар Ветер, CC BY-SA 3.0. For most of its eight centuries Khutyn was a male monastery. Today it houses a women's convent, the bells still ringing across the right bank of the Volkhov, the Cathedral of the Transfiguration still holding Varlaam's relics. The Volkhov flows north out of Lake Ilmen toward Lake...

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