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Ipatiev Monastery

Kostroma, Russia · built 1301

The Ipatiev Monastery (also Ipatievsky Monastery), sometimes translated into English as Hypatian Monastery, is a male monastery situated on the bank of the Kostroma River just opposite the city of Kostroma. It was founded around 1330 by a Tatar convert, Prince Chet, whose male-line descendants included Solomonia Saburova and Tsar Boris Godunov, and is dedicated to St. Hypatios of Gangra.

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