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We shall now proceed past a seventeenth-century civic brick building, partially restored by Alexei Varganov, into the north part of the convent which is di­vided off by an inner wall. From here there is a splendid view of the Spaso-Yevfimiev Monastery across the old tent-shaped towers of the wall.

As we have mentioned earlier the monastery was founded in the middle of the fourteenth century by the princes of Suzdal and Nizhny Novgorod. It was excel­lently situated on the high left bank of the Kamenka and formed the town's northern defensive outpost. An account of the life of the monastery's first abbot Yevfimi says that he built a stone church there at this very early stage. Since this account was written in the sixteenth century when the monastery had several new stone churches this was probably only conjecture on the part of the author, a monk by the name of Grigori. By the fifteenth century the monastery possessed numerous lands, villages and hamlets in various parts of Central Russia which had been endowed by princes and rich boyars. It obtained another lucrative source of income in 1507 when the relics of Abbot Yevfimi, the monas­tery's founder who was canonised shortly afterwards, were first used to attract pilgrims. All this enabled the monastery to erect a large number of new stone build­ings in the first half of the sixteenth century. At the begin­ning of the seventeenth century the Polish invaders used it as a stronghold and surrounded it with a wooden stockade. This was replaced by new wooden fortifications with nine towers in 1660 and some twenty years later the present stone walls were built with twenty towers and a total perimeter of 1,312 yards. Since the monastery possessed 10,300 serfs at this time the construction of such a huge stronghold was well within its means.

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