St. Yury's Monastery is located in the outskirts of Novgorod the Great.
According to the chronicles the monastery was founded in 1030 by Yaroslav
the Wise after the victory in the campaign against the people of "chud".
The monastery was very rich and it became the burial-vault for the princes of Russia.
The times of Catherine the Great were hard for the monastery, its revival was started
in the 19th century under the Archbishop Fotiy. He built new churches, hospitals for
monks, schools as well as a hotel for travellers. The main cathedral of the monastery
has always been St. George Cathedral, built in 1119.
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