Martyrs of Solovetsky Monastery

 

The Solovetsky Special Purpose Camp ( ELEPHANT , "Solovki" ) is the largest labor camp in the USSR on the territory of the Solovetsky Islands , operating in the 1920s-1930s.

For many years, the Solovetsky Monastery was used as a place of isolation of Orthodox hierarchs, heretics and sectarians who were disobedient to the will of the sovereign. The Solovetsky monastery prison existed since 1718, for nearly 200 years, and was closed in 1903 (wiki)

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"Solovki is an open-air antimension, here the whole earth is covered with the blood of martyrs." - Archimandrite John (Krestiankin)

More than 80 metropolitans, archbishops and bishops, more than 400 hieromonks and parish priests - the flower of the nation - passed through the ELEPHANT and STON.
Many remained to rest on Solovki: tortured, but not betraying God and their conscience.