Chronicle of Valaam monastery
- 1855 , 30th of January
- - the wooden temple of St. Alexander of the Svir was sanctified in Svyatoostrovsky skete.
- 1855
- - a wooden house for hegumens was built and a well was dug on Predtechny island.
- 1856
- - Finnish stone hotel was built. It was blowed up and destroyed during the war in 1939-1940.
- 1858
- - the ancient church, which was built in Vasilyevskiy village cemetery by Valaam monks who lived there, was transported from Staraya Ladoga to Valaam (to the island of Saint John the Precursor).
- 1858 , 15th of June
- - the temple of St. Sergy and German was sanctified in the low church.
- 1858 , 20th of June
- - the upper wooden temple of Saint Precursor and Baptist John was sanctified in the skete of St. John the Precursor.
- 1858 , 28th of June
- - Emperor Alexander 2 with his family visited the monastery. In honour of this event the chapel called "Tsarskaya" was erected in the monastery.
- 1858
- - a stone house for brotherhood of the skete was built with a house church of Reverend Ioann Damaskin within it. It was sanctified in 1865.
- 1858
- - the footstock for observing of water level in Ladoga was carved out in the rock in the main monastery bay.
- 1859 , 1st of January
- - beginning of daily observations of swaying of water in Ladoga lake. They were continued by the monastery brotherhood for 81 years, till the 1st of December, 1939.
- 1860 , 30th of January
- - the temple of Three Ecumenical Baptists was sanctified in the skete of St. John the Precursor.
- 1863
- - a stone building of indoor plumbing and metalworking shops were built and equipped. The building was burnt to ashes and destroyed during the war in 1939-1940 and indoor plumbing system was damaged.
- 1867
- - the wooden temple of God's Prophet Ilya was sanctified in Ilyinsky skete.
- 1870 , 25th of September
- - the wooden temple of the Konevskaya icon of Our Lady was sanctified in Konevsky skete.
- 1871
- - a stone house for workers with stables and a hayloft was built i n the cloister. The building was partly damaged in the years of the war (1939-1940).
- 1873 , 9th of October
- - the wooden church of Reverend Avraamy was sanctified in the skete of Avraam of Rostov. The temple was dismantled and abolished in 1920.
- 1873
- - the big Andreyevsky 1000 pood bell was casted in St-Petersburg for the cathedral temple of the monastery. It was broken in the war of 1939-1940.
- 1876 , 12th September
- - the stone cemetery church of Saint Fathers was sanctified in Nazaryevskaya wasteland.
- 1877
- - stone granite ladder of 62 steps was attached to the pier and a cast-iron grating with granite posts was settled on the shore of the main ground in front of the saint gates.
- 1881
- - beginning of burial of the deceased deans of the monastery, novices and piligrims in Nazaryevskaya wasteland. A dean, father superior Damaskin was the first buried.
- 1881
- - a stone building of the monastery farm with a cowshed was built.
- 1882
- - a stone barn for food and tools was built in the cloister. It was blowed up during the war of 1939-1940.
- 1883
- - the stone internal section for hospital and sacristy was made taller. It burnt with the church of Holy Trinity during the war and the low church of Life-Giving Source was hardly damaged.
- 1884 , 18th of August
- - a new building of the monastery library was opened and all books were collected there. The placement of the sacristy above the library was burnt during the war, but the library survived because it had stone archs in the ceiling.
- 1885
- - two factories were built: stone - resin and wood - leather; two kilns for lime were settled near. The wood - leather factory was burnt during the war in 1939-1940.
960 - 1581
1611 - 1853
1855 - 1885
1886 -1939
1939 - 1996
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