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Working the Land

At the monastery’s farmstead in the village of Lysaya Gora, the brothers set up greenhouses, plant seedlings, and tend to the vegetable garden. In the simplicity of rural labour, sorrows fade, and souls find healing. Photos by Maxim Chernogolov.

a farmstead's cat

the convent's greenhouse

at the monastery's farmstead

farmstead's resident

greenhouses

drip irrigation

planting seedlings

rural labour

in the village of Lysaya Gora

seedlings

tending to the seedlings

watering the plants

vegetable garden

watering the seedlings

working in the greenhouse

working the land