Description of the Balaam Monastery and its skulls. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Opisanie Valaamskogo monastyrya i skitov ego. The fifth edition, amended and supplemented by St. Petersburg Type I. Generalov of 1904, 6 and 86 and 2 AD, is a book devoted to the history of one of the oldest and largest centers of Russian Orthodoxy - the Valaam Savior-Transfiguration Monastery for Men, supposedly founded in the first half of the 10th century. The monastery was one of the richest church centers and highly developed economy. SKUalbd55ba7c2b2eeef48.