Annunciation Monastery (Tolyatti)

The Annunciation Monastery (Russian: Благовещенский скит) is a church complex in the village of Fyodorovka [ru] in the urban district of Tolyatti in Samara Oblast in Russia.

Barbara Bakhmetev (née Lopukhin) was the lifelong love of the poet Mikhail Lermontov and the inspiration for some of his works, but the pair was not allowed to marry.

In 1846 Nikolai Bakhmetev constructed a stone church, the altar which was dedicated in honor of St. Barbara, in hope of a cure for his wife.

Nicholas Manihin, provost of the Stavropol region of Samara diocese, consecrated the church in honor of the Annunciation.

Because the city was completely relocated when the Kuybyshev dam was built in the 1950s, it is now the oldest building surviving in Tolyatti.