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St. Catherine`s Monastery in Tver is located on the northern side of the Volga River near the confluence of the Tvertsa River. The temple with a tall spire was built in the style of Peter the Great Baroque, and it has a beautiful view from the Embankment of Stepan Razin, which is located on the opposite bank of the Volga.

For the first time, a wooden church on the site of St. Catherine`s Church was built in the 1720s. By that time, the stone Assumption Cathedral had already been built in 1722 in the Otroch Monastery on the banks of the Tvertsa River. In 1774, the construction of the stone St. Catherine`s Church began. It ended in 1786, and since then two spires have towered over the Volga River bank in Tver. 

During the 19th century, the church`s territory increased, new chapels were added to it, and other chapels were built nearby, but it remained the parish church of the Zavolzhsky district of Tver. During the WWII, St. Catherine`s Church was partially destroyed and after the war the bell tower was dismantled.

In the 1990s, the church initially became a courtyard of the Voznesensky Orshin Convent for women, and in 1996, by the decision of the Archbishop of Tver, the church became St. Catherine`s Convent. The chapel of St. Seraphim of Sarov was restored on the riverbank. It offers a beautiful view of Stepan Razin Embankment, where houses with a single facade in the style of St. Petersburg were built during the reign of Catherine II.