Voices From Russia, Too

Sunday, 8 May 2016

8 May 2016. Our Great Russian Motherland: Church of the Assumption on the Don Heights. Epifan (Kimovsk Raion. Tula Oblast. Central Federal District)

00 church of the assumption. don heights. Epifan. Tula Oblast. Russia. 230216

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This church is part of the Assumption Monastery near Fedoseyeva. This hill, along with the holy spring on the banks of the Don River, according to legend, is the burial-place of Russian warriors who died of their wounds after the Battle of the Kulikovo Pole in 1380.

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