Иоанн Кронштадтский
John of Kronstadt (later Saint John of Kronstadt) established the monastery on the bank of the Karpovka River in 1900 as a branch of the Sura Monastery of St. John the Theologian. The main pentacupolar church of the Twelve Apostles (1902) was built to a Neo-Byzantine design by . The ground floor contains the marble tomb of Saint John of Kronstadt.