Vyazhishchi Monastery

Much of its lands were confiscated during Catherine II's secularisation reform (1764) at which time it was classified as a 2nd Class Monastery.

It became part of a collective farm and the buildings were used to store potatoes, as well as a threshing floor, a forge, and a metal shop.

On March 31, 1990, then Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod Alexius (later the Patriarch of Moscow) reconsecrated the main church to St. Evfimy.

The convent has the status of a stauropegic monastery (as of a grant from the Holy Synod of 7 October 1995), that is, it is under the direct control of the Patriarch of Moscow rather than of the Archbishop of Novgorod.

The churches were meticulously restored in the early 21st century under the supervision of Leonid Krasnorechyev and Ninel Kuzmina.