Pegrema is an abandoned village in Medvezhyegorsky District

Medvezhyegorsky District

Medvezhyegorsky District is an administrative district , one of the fifteen in the Republic of Karelia, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Medvezhyegorsky Municipal District. Its administrative center is the town of Medvezhyegorsk. District's population: 38,388 ; Population of...

 of the Republic of Karelia

Republic of Karelia

The Republic of Karelia is a federal subject of Russia .-Geography:The republic is located in the northwestern part of Russia, taking intervening position between the basins of White and Baltic seas...

, Russia

Russia

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, situated on a bank of the Onego Lake, about 10 km from Unitsa

Unitsa

Unitsa is a village in Republic of Karelia, Russia, on a bank of Unitskaya Gulf of Lake Onega. The same name also belongs to a nearby railway station....

 in the Unitsa Gulf.

Pegrema is a beautiful example of the wooden architecture of Zaonezhye. It consists of several large peasant houses, the fronts of which are faced to the lake.

In the 1770s, the Varlaam Khutynsky

Khutyn Monastery

Khutyn Monastery of Saviour's Transfiguration and of St. Varlaam used to be the holiest monastery of the medieval Novgorod Republic. The monastery is situated on the right bank of the Volkhov River some 10 km north northeast of Velikiy Novgorod, in the village of Khutyn, whose name is perhaps...

 chapel was built on a little cape in front of the houses. Now the chapel is almost completely safe, although all icon

Icon

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s were removed from it after the Russian Revolution

Russian Revolution of 1917

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