Konevets

Konevets (Russian: Коневец; Finnish: Konevitsa or Kononsaari) is an approximately 8.5-km² island famous as the site of the Konevsky Monastery.

The terrain of sandy heath slopes gently up from the shoreline towards the interior of the island, where two cliffs, Svyataya and Zmeinaya, rise up out of the ground to 34 m and 29 m above sea level respectively.

The rock is located approximately 1 km north-northeast of the monastery at the base of the west slope of Svyataya.

The rock is a rounded granite slab that is 9 m long, 6 m wide, approximately 4 m high and 750 tonnes that resembles the head of a horse.

The island’s Orthodox Monastery of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary was founded by Arseny of Novgorod in 1393.

Sweden lost control of the island as a result of their being beaten by Peter I of Russia in the Great Northern War.