St. Avraam Pokrovsky Monastery, located in Nozhkino village on a steep bank overlooking the deep blue Chukhloma Lake near Kostroma, is a male monastery that belongs to the diocese of the Russian Orthodox Сhurch. The monastery was founded in the 14th century by Reverend Avraam Chukhlomskoy, a disciple of St. Sergius of Radonezh, founder of the Trinity Monastery and a patron saint of Russia.

It was the first stone temple built in the Northern part of the Kostroma region. The relics of Avraam are buried under the temple’s wall. A silver reliquary, which is an authentic piece of jewelry and art, was erected over the place where Avraam’s relics are kept.

The wooden palace near Kostroma was built by Martyan Sazonov at the end of the 19th century.

The original drawings of the wooden palace belonged to a well-known architect Ivan Ropet, the founder of the Russian Revival in architecture. According to the legend, he designed it as a hunting lodge for the Russian Tsar Nicholas II. However, Sazonov was so ingenious and persuasive that he convinced the architect to give him that project. Later, the wooden palace became Sazonov’s wedding gift for his young wife.

Today is a restoration of the wooden palace.