Tourist Attractions & Sightseeing

The church was first built in the 13th century. The medieval Cistercian St Michael´s Abbey was rebuilt as the Transfiguration church in 1732. A valuable Baroque iconostasis dates back to 1720, the grave monument of the holy martyr Bishop St Platon was c...

It was meant to become the last resting place for von Ungern-Sternbergs but the groundwater turned out being too high. Having no rectory or cemetery it was just a simple church nicely by the road. In the summer of 1939 the Soviet army found a new ...