Yelizarov or Yeleazarov Convent () is a small convent founded as a monastery in 1447 to the north of

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, along the road leading to

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, by a local peasant named Eleazar. He constructed the wooden church of Three Holy Fathers, wherein he was interred upon his death on 15 May 1481. Eleazar was canonized at the Stoglavy Sobor in 1551. In the mid-16th century, the monastery was heavily fortified and attained a position of great importance and celebrity, owing to its learned

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Philotheus of Pskov Philotheus (or Filofei; ; – 1542) was a hegumen of the Yelizarov Monastery, near Pskov, in the 16th century. He is credited with authorship of the '' Legend of the White Cowl'' and the Moscow - Third Rome prophecy, details of which are very s ...

, who is credited with authorship of the ''

Legend of the White Cowl ''The Legend of the White Cowl'' (; ) is a Russian Orthodox story first recorded by the monk Philotheus of Pskov in 1510. It tells of the passage of a religious relic of great significance through great danger from Rome to Constantinople and fina ...

'' and the

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prophecy. It was during his hegumenship that the monastery became known for its school of icon-painters and its still-standing cathedral was built. Some scholars believe that the only known copy of the ''

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'' was created by one of local monks at the behest of Philotheus. After seven decades of Soviet neglect, the monastery was revived as a nunnery patronized by

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and

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who commissioned a luxurious guest house for their prolonged stays at the convent. The convent's mother superior supposedly had a portrait of

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hanging in her bed-chamber. Both Putina and Sliska attended her funeral in Moscow in 2010.

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